# Marlyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marlyn/  
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 | 9,112 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,306 / 6,806 (75% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 | 51 | 3,252 |
| 2012 | 82 | 2,306 |
| 2013 | 64 | 2,718 |
| 2014 | 59 | 2,914 |
| 2015 | 42 | 3,688 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,975 |
| 2017 | 24 | 5,472 |
| 2018 | 22 | 5,722 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,334 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,510 |
| 2021 | 24 | 5,347 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,902 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,885 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6,320 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,653 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | 8,303 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,695 |
| 1999 | 10 | 6,335 |
| 2000 | 9 | 7,199 |
| 2002 | 7 | 9,046 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,072 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,643 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,653 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,303 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,661 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,751 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,885 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,330 |
| 2017 | 5 | 13,551 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,355 |

## People named Marlyn

- Marlyn Mason, American actress

## 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.