Marylin

Where Marylin comes from

Marylin 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.

Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,512 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Peak, #606
    117 babies named Marylin — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,491.
  4. 1959
    Marylin Simons born
    Surinamese writer
  5. 1984
    Marylin Pla born
    French pair skater
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Marylin Pla · French pair skater, born 1984
  • Marylin Simons · Surinamese writer, born 1959

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.