Marilyn

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Marilyn: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 11 years, its highest recorded position is #19, and it stood at #1,719 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
74years from first to last
#19highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Marilyn's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1998	#2701
2000	#3247
2001	#2466
2002	#3409
2003	#1843
2004	#3197
2006	#3116
2007	#4294
2008	#3397
2009	#3031
2010	#2843
2011	#2150
2012	#2521
2013	#1707
2014	#1628
2015	#1549
2016	#2367
2017	#2502
2018	#2674
2019	#2040
2020	#2300
2021	#1692
2022	#2673
2023	#2063
2024	#1541
2025	#1719

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 Republic of Ireland in 21 of the 55 years from 1969 to 2023.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2063 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1952–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #28 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1956
Highest recorded position: #19 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1953 (recorded 1952–1956).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1719 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Marilyn appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 27 ranked years and 277 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1952.

Marilyn across 4 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.

Marilyn'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (1969)	#326 (1971)	#856 (2023)	21 of 55	92 (1969–2023)	7 (1971)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1541 (2024)	#1719 (2025)	27 of 30	277 (1996–2025)	20 (2015)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#28 (1952)	#19 (1953)	#93 (1956)	5 of 5	1,293 (1952–1956)	430 (1953)
New Zealand · Girls	#28 (1954)	#28 (1954)	#82 (1957)	4 of 4	546 (1954–1957)	213 (1954)

Marilyn 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 Marilyn in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000s	52	9 of 10	6
2010s	128	10 of 10	13
2020sbusiest	87	6 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Marilyn appears in

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

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #19 in New South Wales, Australia in 1953.

Marilyn'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	#1719	17	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1541	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1692	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2300	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1549	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1707	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#93	75	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#52	172	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#33	280	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#19	430	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#28	336	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New Zealand	female	#82	79	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	female	#59	110	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	female	#45	144	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	female	#28	213	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	5	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#388	6	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#379	6	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	7	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#402	5	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	6	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	7	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	4	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

Where Marilyn is officially recorded

5 official registrars have recorded Marilyn, between 1952 and 2025, in 50 of those 74 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New South Wales, Australia	1952–1956	5	#19 in 1953
New Zealand	1954–1957	4	#28 in 1954
Republic of Ireland	1969–2023	21	#326 in 1971
England and Wales	1996–2025	27	#1541 in 2024
Northern Ireland	2015	1	#426 in 2015

Its high point came 71 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1953) than in England and Wales (2024).

No registrar recorded it for 11 years after 1957; it appears again in 1969.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1952 and 2025, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #19, first reached in 1953.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 430 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1953.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1954, and 63 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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Marin · #698, 21y
Marina · #122, 73y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Kasper · #17, 51y
Stacey · #15, 53y
Filip · #13, 54y
Kimberley · #27, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Bradley · #19, 70y
Carol · #19, 71y
Noel · #19, 74y
Suzanne · #19, 74y

Marilyn was ranked #19 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1953. 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.

Sandra#15
Barbara#16
Diane#17
Wendy#18
Dianne#20
Mary#21
Denise#22
Pamela#23

Marilyn 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marilyn without appearing here.

Marilyn moved ahead of

Finley
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Kirsten
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Vicki
In 2011 they stood at #3197 and #3197 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2521 and #5876.
Gemma
In 2024 they stood at #1541 and #1541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #1719 and #4867.

Moved ahead of Marilyn

Frida
In 2003 they stood at #1843 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3197 and #1836.
Eabha
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2300 and #1313.
Harper
In 2005 they stood at #3197 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3116 and #2137.
Ida
In 1997 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #2701 and #2165.

Moved the opposite way to Marilyn

Abigail
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 while Abigail went from #303 to #84.
Alexandra
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 while Alexandra went from #303 to #148.
Alice
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 while Alice went from #103 to #38.
Amelia
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 while Amelia went from #322 to #8.

Moved the same way as Marilyn

Aisling
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 and Aisling from #94 to #159.
Alison
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 and Alison from #71 to #226.
Alma
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 and Alma from #303 to #625.
Amanda
Between 1969 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Marilyn went from #443 to #856 and Amanda from #58 to #495.

What is known about Marilyn

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 5 official registrars, 1952–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 5 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #19 in New South Wales, Australia in 1953. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marilyn

Marilyn at a glance

What stands out in Marilyn's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marilyn across 4 official records

Marilyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Marilyn appears in

Popularity data

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What the record shows

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Marilyn at a glance

What stands out in Marilyn's record

Marilyn across 4 official records

Marilyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Marilyn appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Marilyn

Marilyn and the names beside it

Marilyn moved ahead of

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