How popular is the name Marylyn?

Marylyn ranks 1,959th among girls' names in US records, with 5,657 births since 1910. Over the past decade it accounts for 170.

Is Marylyn a unisex name?

No. Marylyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1936, when 261 children were given the name. It has been in use for 115 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Marylynn, Marylynne, Marylinn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,959 of girl names

Pronounced M EH1 R IY0 L IH1 N (ARPABET)

Marylyn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1910. It has been given to 5,657 children — the 1,959th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 170 births across the past decade, against a peak of 261 in a single year. That peak was in 1936.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Marylynn, Marylynne and Marylinn — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Marylyn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Marylyn?: Marylyn ranks 1,959th among girls' names in US records, with 5,657 births since 1910. Over the past decade it accounts for 170.
Is Marylyn a unisex name?: No. Marylyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Marylyn most popular?: 1936, when 261 children were given the name. It has been in use for 115 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Marylyn spelled?: Marylynn, Marylynne, Marylinn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.