Marli

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Marli: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Marli: Recorded since 1997, it reached #680 in 2003, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#680highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
2001	#3998
2002	#1658
2003	#680
2004	#1459
2005	#1796
2006	#2320
2007	#1656
2008	#1034
2009	#1909
2010	#2392
2011	#1608
2012	#3681
2013	#4050
2014	#3160
2015	#2705
2016	#2367
2017	#2706
2018	#2340
2019	#1854
2020	#2042
2021	#1785
2022	#1849
2023	#2346
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #680 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Marli appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 321 births with the name.

Marli across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Marli's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#680 (2003)	#2574 (2024)	26 of 28	321 (1997–2024)	42 (2003)
England and Wales · Boys	#3225 (2002)	#2276 (2008)	#5119 (2024)	17 of 23	84 (2002–2024)	9 (2021)

Marli by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Marli in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000sbusiest	149	9 of 10	17
2010s	101	10 of 10	10
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births rose by 31, from 11 to 42.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Marli appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #680 in England and Wales in 2003.

Marli's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#680	42	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #680, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 42 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Marlie · #351, 27y
Marlo · #657, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Shakeel · #680, 27y
Ashwin · #681, 29y
Ruby-May · #679, 23y
Farhaan · #678, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Shakeel · #680, 27y
Ashwin · #681, 29y
Harun · #679, 29y
Karam · #679, 30y

Marli was ranked #680 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Marli and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marli without appearing here.

Marli moved ahead of

Tove Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1034 and #5545.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Josefine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #680 and #4373.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Marli

Daithi Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #3112 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #5119 and #3254.
Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2301 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #1363.
Gunnar Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2629 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #4685 and #3822.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Marli

Carol Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Marli went from #3824 to #1785 while Carol went from #897 to #3519.
Karin Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Marli went from #3824 to #1785 while Karin went from #1802 to #3192.
Tyler Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Marli went from #3824 to #1785 while Tyler went from #242 to #5581.
Albie Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marli went from #3225 to #5119 while Albie went from #722 to #19.

Moved the same way as Marli

Aaron Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marli went from #3225 to #5119 and Aaron from #36 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marli went from #3225 to #5119 and Adam from #17 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marli went from #3225 to #5119 and Alan from #239 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marli went from #3225 to #5119 and Alex from #42 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #680 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marli

Marli at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marli across 2 official records

Marli by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Marli appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Marli at a glance

Marli across 2 official records

Marli by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Marli appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Marli

Marli and the names beside it

Marli moved ahead of

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