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 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,682 of them was named Marlon, which outranked 94.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #806Duncan286
- #806Landry286
- #808Vincenzo285
- #809Marlon284
- #809Ameer284
- #809Gerald284
- #809Junior284
- #814Camdyn283
- #815Bentlee282
- #816Jamie281
Tied with 4 names at #809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.