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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Marley

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#322

down −36 places

2025 births

950

down −158 births

All-time births

33,045

3% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2008
2,359 births
Best rank
#145
in 2008
First recorded
1937
#4,102 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2012
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
73 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 20082,359#145Peak
  2. 20092,171#149
  3. 20141,650#203
  4. 20131,533#210
  5. 20161,500#215

Rank over time

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

Best rank #145 in 2008 · peak births 2,359 in 2008

Boys and girls

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

● 14% boys■ 86% girls

5,359 boys · 33,045 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 Marley has ranked, decade by decade

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