Marlowe

Where Marlowe comes from

Marlowe hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    Marlowe Morris born
    American musician
  2. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,291 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2004
    Marlowe Peyton born
    American actor and music producer
  4. 2004
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #523
    575 babies named Marlowe — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marlowe Peyton · American actor and music producer, born 2004
  • Marlowe Morris · American musician, 1915–1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.