girls:
3.2k births since 1915
#3053 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1915
#4801 (38th percentile)
The name Marilou is the #4,801 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,223 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 38.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,053 (46.6% percentile) for all time with 3,223 births since 1915.
Marilou first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Marilou is available in 100 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Marilou reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 12.7% percentile (ranked #518) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 70 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marilou ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marilou".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Marilou", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Marylou" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Marylou..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Marilou. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.8% confident that Marilou is pronounced as MEH-rih-lue, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-rih-lue, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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