Marilee

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Marilee by the numbers

Marilee was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 221 babies in 1947, so it is a 1940s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Marilee

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Marilee. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Marleepleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley657 in the US (2017)
  • Mailee16 in the US (2017)
  • Marylee13 in the US (2017)
  • Madilee5 in the US (2017)
  • Marleypleasant lake or fen clearing395 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Marilynbeloved by god; a form of Mary580 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Marilee

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