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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Marla

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#2,055

up +285 places

2025 births

92

up +13 births

All-time births

38,781

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1955
1,725 births
Best rank
#193
in 1955
First recorded
1912
#2,849 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1966
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
106 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19551,725#193Peak
  2. 19561,534#207
  3. 19571,329#231
  4. 19541,299#224
  5. 19621,236#254

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #193 in 1955 · peak births 1,725 in 1955

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

38 boys · 38,781 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Marla has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.