Marlon

maleStatistical record

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

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

Marlon: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #188, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#188highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#620
1997	#455
1998	#644
1999	#906
2000	#731
2001	#751
2002	#1033
2003	#889
2004	#841
2005	#954
2006	#1224
2007	#1125
2008	#1124
2009	#1133
2010	#1029
2011	#1045
2012	#1229
2013	#1404
2014	#1935
2015	#1327
2016	#1234
2017	#1470
2018	#1533
2019	#1189
2020	#1314
2021	#1448
2022	#1534
2023	#1610
2024	#1758

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #286 among boys in Norway, #1758 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #620 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2023–2025
Highest recorded position: #188 among boys in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 2023–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #188 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Marlon appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 606 births with the name.

Marlon 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.

Marlon'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	#620 (1996)	#455 (1997)	#1758 (2024)	29 of 29	606 (1996–2024)	43 (1997)
Norway · Boys	#199 (2023)	#188 (2025)	#188 (2025)	3 of 3	64 (2023–2025)	25 (2023)

Marlon 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 Marlon in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	113	4 of 10	28
2000sbusiest	215	10 of 10	22
2010s	197	10 of 10	20
2020s	81	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 22 births a year.

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

Marlon 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #188 in Norway in 2025.

Marlon'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	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1189	22	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1470	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1234	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1404	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1229	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1045	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1029	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#954	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#841	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#889	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1033	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#731	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#644	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#455	43	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#620	26	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#188	25	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#286	14	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#199	25	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #188, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, 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.

Marlie · #351, 27y
Marlo · #657, 20y
Marlow · #625, 22y
Marlowe · #541, 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.

Brogan · #188, 30y
Tianna · #187, 29y
Kelsie · #190, 31y
Riain · #190, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Brogan · #188, 30y
Dylon · #188, 21y
Emilija · #188, 29y
Keenan · #188, 30y

Marlon was ranked #188 in Norway · Boys in 2025. 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.

Marlon 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 Marlon without appearing here.

Marlon moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #5119.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1533 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1189 and #1986.
Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #841 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #954 and #1617.
Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1534 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1610 and #2160.

Moved ahead of Marlon

Marius Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1234 and #1319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1470 and #888.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1448 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1534 and #967.
Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #455 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #644 and #182.
Conan Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1314 and #1379 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1448 and #1023.

Moved the opposite way to Marlon

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Marlon

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marlon went from #620 to #1758 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #188 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marlon

Marlon at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marlon across 2 official records

Marlon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Marlon appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Marlon

Marlon and the names beside it

Marlon moved ahead of

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Marlon at a glance

Marlon across 2 official records

Marlon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Marlon 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 Marlon

Marlon and the names beside it

Marlon moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Marlon

Moved the opposite way to Marlon

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