Marlowe

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Marlowe: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #541, and it stood at #585 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#541highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#3160
2014	#1966
2015	#1139
2016	#1211
2017	#1063
2018	#843
2019	#717
2020	#821
2021	#555
2022	#596
2023	#637
2024	#594
2025	#585

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 boys in England and Wales in 23 of the 27 years from 1999 to 2025.

In 2025: #585 among girls in England and Wales, #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2097 among boys in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #585 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Marlowe appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 290 births with the name.

Marlowe across 3 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.

Marlowe'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 · Boys	#2097 (1999)	#1042 (2023)	#1066 (2025)	23 of 27	290 (1999–2025)	28 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3160 (2013)	#555 (2021)	#585 (2025)	13 of 13	580 (2013–2025)	72 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#871 (2019)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	6 of 7	20 (2019–2025)	4 (2023)

Marlowe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Marlowe in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	26	6 of 10	4
2010s	123	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	136	6 of 10	23

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 23 births a year.

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #541 in Scotland in 2024.

Marlowe'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#585	67	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#1066	28	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#594	66	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1402	19	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#637	57	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#596	64	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#555	72	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#717	54	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#843	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1063	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1211	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #541, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 72 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

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 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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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Marney · #2759, 18y
Marni · #724, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Raiya · #541, 20y
Rayne · #541, 27y
Sunnie · #541, 20y
Chimamanda · #544, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Andie · #541, 30y
Cristiano · #541, 27y
Deniz · #541, 30y
Giovanna · #541, 30y

Marlowe was ranked #541 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Abeeha#541
Adelaide#541
Aimee#541
Aiza#541
Abiha#638
Adaline#638
Ailidh#638
Ainsley#638

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #541 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marlowe

Marlowe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marlowe across 3 official records

Marlowe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Marlowe

Marlowe at a glance

Marlowe across 3 official records

Marlowe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Marlowe