# Marlowe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marlowe/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,467 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,662 / 4,805 (74% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 870, 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 | 84 | 2,250 |
| 2012 | 102 | 1,934 |
| 2013 | 185 | 1,279 |
| 2014 | 206 | 1,190 |
| 2015 | 222 | 1,140 |
| 2016 | 256 | 1,036 |
| 2017 | 264 | 986 |
| 2018 | 246 | 1,047 |
| 2019 | 243 | 1,055 |
| 2020 | 279 | 927 |
| 2021 | 302 | 899 |
| 2022 | 365 | 779 |
| 2023 | 328 | 836 |
| 2024 | 478 | 625 |
| 2025 | 575 | 523 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 4,930 |
| 2012 | 14 | 6,200 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,363 |
| 2014 | 16 | 5,628 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,437 |
| 2016 | 19 | 5,068 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,695 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,672 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,743 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,646 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,698 |
| 2022 | 33 | 3,510 |
| 2023 | 39 | 3,157 |
| 2024 | 47 | 2,778 |
| 2025 | 36 | 3,286 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,966 |
| 2015 | 30 | 1,139 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,211 |
| 2017 | 33 | 1,063 |
| 2018 | 44 | 843 |
| 2019 | 54 | 717 |
| 2020 | 44 | 821 |
| 2021 | 72 | 555 |
| 2022 | 64 | 596 |
| 2023 | 57 | 637 |
| 2024 | 66 | 594 |
| 2025 | 67 | 585 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,448 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,104 |
| 2023 | 28 | 1,042 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 28 | 1,066 |

## People named Marlowe

- Ryan Fredericks, English association football player (born 1992)

## 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.