Marylou

Where Marylou comes from

Variant of Mary Lou.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marylou
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,700 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1925
    Marylou Whitney born
    American philanthropist
  3. 1937
    Peak, #350
    337 babies named Marylou — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #733.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Marylou Whitney · American philanthropist, 1925–2019

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.