girls:
1.6k births since 1949
#4165 (27th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2006
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1949
#6150 (21st percentile)
The name Marly is the #6,150 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,596 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 20.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,165 (27.1% percentile) for all time with 1,591 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2006.
Marly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Marly is available in 60 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 1 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 Marly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marly reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #900) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 43 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marly ranks #926 for girls (2.2% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 34.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marly reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #875) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Marly is pronounced as MAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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