Marlo

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Marlo: Recorded since 1997, it reached #657 in 2022, and it stood at #702 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#657highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#3609
2017	#4063
2018	#3985
2019	#4686
2020	#2843
2021	#2942
2023	#5687
2024	#2115
2025	#4201

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 21 of the 29 years from 1997 to 2025.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #800 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — 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 #4201 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Marlo appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 399 births with the name.

Marlo 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.

Marlo'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	#2859 (1997)	#702 (2025)	#702 (2025)	21 of 29	399 (1997–2025)	50 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#3609 (2016)	#2115 (2024)	#4201 (2025)	9 of 10	57 (2016–2025)	13 (2024)

Marlo 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 Marlo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	20	4 of 10	5
2010s	149	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	227	6 of 10	38

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 38 births a year.

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

Marlo appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #657 in Republic of Ireland in 2022.

Marlo'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	#4201	5	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#702	50	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#2115	13	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#800	41	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#890	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1011	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#771	43	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#962	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1235	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1289	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	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	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	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 1997 and 2025, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #657, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

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 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 27 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.

Marli · #680, 27y
Marlie · #351, 27y
Marlon · #188, 30y
Marlow · #625, 23y

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.

Boden · #657, 22y
Gio · #655, 23y
Raeya · #667, 20y
Arabelle · #638, 19y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Boden · #657, 22y
Chaya · #657, 30y
Havana · #657, 28y
Montague · #657, 30y

Marlo was ranked #657 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2022. 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.

Abdul#657
Aden#657
Ahad#657
Akim#657
A J#779
Aariz#779
Aarush#779
Aaryan#779

Marlo 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marlo without appearing here.

Marlo moved ahead of

Donna
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Hayden
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Hunter
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Kirsten
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Marlo

Eabha
In 2016 they stood at #3609 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2201.
Pamela
In 2024 they stood at #2115 and #2574 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #4201 and #2605.
Linnea
In 2024 they stood at #2115 and #2411 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #4201 and #3035.
Finley
In 2024 they stood at #2115 and #3318 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #4201 and #3705.

Moved the opposite way to Marlo

Aaron
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 while Aaron went from #32 to #180.
Alan
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 while Alan went from #179 to #539.
Alex
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 while Alex went from #43 to #207.
Alexander
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 while Alexander went from #16 to #40.

Moved the same way as Marlo

Albie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 and Albie from #914 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 and Alfred from #192 to #76.
Archie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlo went from #2859 to #702 and Archie from #141 to #11.

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 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #657 in Republic of Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marlo

Marlo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marlo across 2 official records

Marlo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Marlo appears in

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 Marlo

Marlo and the names beside it

Marlo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Marlo

Moved the opposite way to Marlo

Moved the same way as Marlo

Marlo at a glance

Marlo across 2 official records

Marlo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Marlo 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 Marlo

Marlo and the names beside it

Marlo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Marlo

Moved the opposite way to Marlo

Moved the same way as Marlo