Marlie
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 63 babies a year in England and Wales.
Marlie by the numbers
In 2025, 63 babies in England and Wales were named Marlie. In the US, 144 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 England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 306 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Marlie
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 Marlie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Markiewarlike; a form of Marcus21 in the US (2017)
- Marleypleasant lake or fen clearing395 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marlowelake by a lake, remnants of a lake67 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marlowlake remnants or marshy lake58 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marloa form of Marlowe; lake remnant or boundary lake50 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mamiebeloved; diminutive of Mary23 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Marlie
Names that are said the same way as Marlie, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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