Marleah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Marleah by the numbers
Marleah was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 16 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Marleah
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 Marleah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Maleah362 in the US (2017)
- Marlea6 in the US (2017)
- Marleypleasant lake or fen clearing395 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mariahof the sea; a form of Maria1,604 in the US (2017)
- Marleepleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley657 in the US (2017)
- Marleighlake by the boundary; a modern respelling of Marlene296 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Marleah
Names that are said the same way as Marleah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Marleah
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