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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Marlys

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

8,958

peak year 1937

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1937
369 births
Best rank
#323
in 1936
First recorded
1910
#2,649 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1942
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
94 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1937369#325Peak
  2. 1936367#323
  3. 1938360#333
  4. 1935350#342
  5. 1934343#344

Rank over time

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

Best rank #323 in 1936 · peak births 369 in 1937

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

5 boys · 8,958 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 Marlys has ranked, decade by decade

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