Marlon
Last seen for girls in 2000 at #13,154 · #1,097 for boys in 2025, 195 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 1,028 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 30,956since 1914
Marlon over time
Rank among boys' names. Marlon has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,097 | 195 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,082 | 201 | |
| 2023 | — | #940 | 240 | |
| 2022 | — | #992 | 226 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,030 | 213 | |
| 2020 | — | #982 | 217 | |
| 2019 | — | #855 | 260 | |
| 2018 | — | #846 | 262 | |
| 2017 | — | #792 | 291 | |
| 2016 | — | #809 | 284 | |
| 2015 | — | #817 | 277 | |
| 2014 | — | #743 | 319 | |
| 2013 | — | #717 | 327 | |
| 2012 | — | #695 | 340 | |
| 2011 | — | #638 | 367 | |
| 2010 | — | #606 | 411 | |
| 2009 | — | #649 | 382 | |
| 2008 | — | #568 | 455 | |
| 2007 | — | #551 | 467 | |
| 2006 | — | #509 | 509 | |
| 2005 | — | #514 | 479 | |
| 2004 | — | #521 | 460 | |
| 2003 | — | #519 | 462 | |
| 2002 | — | #510 | 447 | |
| 2001 | — | #501 | 454 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #507 | 452 |
| 1999 | — | #497 | 437 | |
| 1998 | — | #492 | 442 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #462 | 479 |
| 1996 | — | #469 | 466 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #487 | 444 |
| 1994 | — | #479 | 445 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #482 | 436 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #475 | 452 |
| 1991 | — | #449 | 481 | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #457 | 469 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #463 | 413 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #406 | 488 |
| 1987 | — | #431 | 415 | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #432 | 402 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #361 | 509 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #370 | 476 |
| 1983 | — | #407 | 401 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #378 | 457 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #391 | 429 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #343 | 538 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | #319 | 591 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #330 | 530 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #297 | 651 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #263 | 743 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #297 | 639 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | #256 | 756 |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 | #233 | 904 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | #217 | 1,028 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #276 | 766 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #378 | 458 |
| 1969 | — | #512 | 231 | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | #493 | 235 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #430 | 311 |
| 1966 | — | #476 | 259 | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #480 | 261 |
| 1964 | — | #482 | 267 | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | #428 | 350 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #468 | 290 |
| 1961 | — | #465 | 303 | |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #462 | 296 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | #477 | 269 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #424 | 345 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | #450 | 293 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #395 | 365 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | #344 | 449 |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | #509 | 203 |
| 1953 | — | #774 | 84 | |
| 1952 | — | #709 | 98 | |
| 1951 | — | #847 | 68 | |
| 1950 | — | #960 | 52 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,185 | 36 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,400 | 27 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,336 | 30 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,299 | 29 | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | #1,204 | 30 |
| 1944 | — | #1,438 | 22 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,258 | 30 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,074 | 40 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,019 | 40 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,573 | 19 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,323 | 25 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,521 | 20 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,344 | 25 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,271 | 27 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,194 | 31 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | #1,310 | 26 |
| 1932 | — | #1,465 | 23 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,394 | 25 | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | #1,559 | 22 |
| 1929 | — | #1,339 | 28 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,480 | 25 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,692 | 21 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,981 | 16 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,679 | 21 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,628 | 23 | |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | #2,123 | 15 |
| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,376 | 13 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,592 | 23 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Marlon! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Marlon
- 15 spots since 2024 (#1,082 → #1,097)
- 115 spots since 2020 (#982 → #1,097)
- 280 spots since 2015 (#817 → #1,097)
- Biggest jump: 265 spots in 1954 (#774 → #509)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2024 (#940 → #1,082)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1972 at #217 (1,028 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 73 yrs · run 1950–2020
- Highest: 1 in 1,577 boys born in 1972 were named Marlon (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,759 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 22.8% of all boys named Marlon (7,066) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | #2,423 (1917) | #2,822 |
| 1920s | 195 | #1,339 (1929) | #1,869 |
| 1930s | 245 | #1,194 (1935) | #1,388 |
| 1940s | 303 | #1,019 (1941) | #1,279 |
| 1950s | 2,226 | #344 (1955) | #589 |
| 1960s | 2,803 | #428 (1963) | #470 |
| 1970s | 7,066 | #217 (1972) | #287 |
| 1980s | 4,528 | #343 (1980) | #398 |
| 1990s | 4,551 | #449 (1991) | #475 |
| 2000s | 4,567 | #501 (2001) | #535 |
| 2010s | 3,138 | #606 (2010) | #752 |
| 2020s | 1,292 | #940 (2023) | #1,021 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marlon in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 170,350 of them was named Marlon, which outranked 44.0% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,888Yanet10
- #5,888Ylonda10
- #5,888Zana10
- #6,340Marlon9
- #6,340Aaren9
- #6,340Aarin9
- #6,340Abiola9
- #6,892Aarti8
- #6,892Abimbola8
- #6,892Adenike8
Tied with 551 names at #6,340; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 2,524 of them was named Marlon, which outranked 95.7% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.