girls:
38.6k births since 1912
#692 (88th percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1955
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
38.6k births since 1912
#1266 (84th percentile)
The name Marla is the #1,266 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,644 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #692 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 38,606 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1955.
Marla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1955 for boys). Birth data for Marla is available in 104 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (104 years for girls and 7 years for boys). 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.
The name Marla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marla reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 74.0% percentile (ranked #190) with 860 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 860 births per million (ranked 74.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2014, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Marla ranks #866 for girls (8.6% percentile) with 49 births per million, which is 5.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marla reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #664) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Marla is pronounced as MAHR-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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