Marli
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 103 babies a year in the US.
Marli by the numbers
In 2025, 11 babies in England and Wales were named Marli. In the US, 103 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 171 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Marli
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 Marli. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Maligarland; necklace132 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marloa form of Marlowe; lake remnant or boundary lake50 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mariof the sea; a form of Mary or Maria32 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marlaof mars; a diminutive of Marlene46 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mablilovable; amiable69 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marlypleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley44 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Marli
Names that are said the same way as Marli, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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