Marlow
#1,163 for girls in 2025, 199 births · #2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
Given to boys 53.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1937 · 27 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,193since 1910
Marlow over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,163 | 199 | #2,304 | 60 |
| 2024 | #1,317 | 174 | #2,476 | 55 |
| 2023 | #1,361 | 165 | #2,362 | 58 |
| 2022 | #1,670 | 126 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | #1,441 | 149 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #2,023 | 92 | #3,918 | 26 |
| 2019 | #1,700 | 123 | #2,851 | 43 |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 | #3,240 | 35 |
| 2017 | #1,902 | 106 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #2,209 | 85 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #2,936 | 57 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,693 | 17 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,002 | 11 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,167 | 13 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,079 | 17 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | — | #2,357 | 22 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,159 | 24 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | — | #1,371 | 45 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | #1,630 | 31 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | #1,351 | 40 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | #1,329 | 39 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | #1,391 | 37 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #1,378 | 38 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | #1,615 | 28 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | #1,526 | 28 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | #1,814 | 18 |
| 1965 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,900 | 18 | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #1,902 | 18 |
| 1962 | — | #1,852 | 19 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,772 | 21 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,806 | 20 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,766 | 20 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,019 | 16 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,945 | 17 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,791 | 19 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,826 | 18 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,391 | 11 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,904 | 16 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,111 | 13 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,218 | 12 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,988 | 15 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,080 | 12 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,277 | 11 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,629 | 19 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,485 | 21 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,397 | 23 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,578 | 18 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,476 | 21 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,288 | 27 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,463 | 21 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,326 | 26 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,465 | 23 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,394 | 25 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,821 | 17 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,793 | 18 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,871 | 18 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,720 | 20 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,776 | 20 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,331 | 13 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,765 | 10 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,511 | 11 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,073 | 15 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,562 | 10 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,580 | 12 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Marlow! It came in at #1,589, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Marlow
- 172 spots since 2024 (#2,476 → #2,304)
- 1,614 spots since 2020 (#3,918 → #2,304)
- 2,586 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #2,304)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1937 at #1,288 (27 births)
- Births halved by 1943, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,468 boys born in 2025 were named Marlow (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,288 in 1937, was only 1 in 39,506 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.7% of all boys named Marlow (345) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 86 | #1,580 (1913) | #2,253 |
| 1920s | 132 | #1,720 (1926) | #2,538 |
| 1930s | 220 | #1,288 (1937) | #1,481 |
| 1940s | 138 | #1,397 (1940) | #2,102 |
| 1950s | 158 | #1,766 (1958) | #2,043 |
| 1960s | 168 | #1,526 (1969) | #2,080 |
| 1970s | 345 | #1,329 (1973) | #1,578 |
| 1980s | 163 | #2,159 (1984) | #3,029 |
| 1990s | 102 | #3,693 (1995) | #5,984 |
| 2000s | 135 | #4,631 (2005) | #5,905 |
| 2010s | 240 | #2,851 (2019) | #4,476 |
| 2020s | 306 | #2,304 (2025) | #2,681 |
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.
Marlow in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 19,330 of them was named Marlow, which outranked 88.2% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,130Rena89
- #2,130Rilee89
- #2,130Taraji89
- #2,145Marlow88
- #2,145Alyanna88
- #2,145Anora88
- #2,145Aruna88
- #2,159Acacia87
- #2,159Adlee87
- #2,159Anisa87
Tied with 13 names at #2,145; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 51,890 of them was named Marlow, which outranked 77.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,171Yadier36
- #3,171Yanis36
- #3,171Zein36
- #3,240Marlow35
- #3,240Abdoulaye35
- #3,240Able35
- #3,240Abrar35
- #3,301Aero34
- #3,301Aiven34
- #3,301Alakai34
Tied with 60 names at #3,240; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.