# Marlin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marlin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 22,834 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 21,172 / 1,662 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 27, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 4,640 |
| 2012 | 32 | 4,566 |
| 2013 | 24 | 5,600 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,940 |
| 2015 | 17 | 7,167 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,484 |
| 2017 | 16 | 7,310 |
| 2018 | 9 | 11,126 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,434 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,820 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,343 |
| 2022 | 12 | 8,857 |
| 2023 | 18 | 6,576 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10,001 |
| 2025 | 14 | 7,748 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 81 | 1,791 |
| 2012 | 86 | 1,752 |
| 2013 | 71 | 1,956 |
| 2014 | 81 | 1,837 |
| 2015 | 82 | 1,820 |
| 2016 | 70 | 2,036 |
| 2017 | 79 | 1,866 |
| 2018 | 86 | 1,788 |
| 2019 | 74 | 1,991 |
| 2020 | 68 | 2,086 |
| 2021 | 73 | 2,033 |
| 2022 | 78 | 1,976 |
| 2023 | 85 | 1,872 |
| 2024 | 83 | 1,913 |
| 2025 | 90 | 1,788 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Marlin

- Marlin Stutzman, American politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.