Marlyn
#5,554 in the US in 2025
Marlyn in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 36% as a share of girls' births.
Marlyn is given to both sexes: 6,806 female and 2,306 male births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Marlyn in New Zealand
Marlyn never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 |
| 1930 | #749 | 87 |
| 1940 | #588 | 140 |
| 1950 | #959 | 88 |
| 1960 | #1,855 | 37 |
| 1970 | #2,017 | 41 |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 |
| 1990 | #2,053 | 65 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 |
| 2010 | #2,841 | 61 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Marlyn most often since 1915. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| California | 1,115 |
| Pennsylvania | 490 |
| New York | 401 |
| Texas | 309 |
| Illinois | 189 |
| Ohio | 157 |
| Wisconsin | 143 |
| Michigan | 127 |
| Maryland | 83 |
| Minnesota | 71 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026