Marlys
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.
Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Marlys by the numbers
Its American peak was 369 babies in 1937, making it a 1930s name.
What we can tell you about Marlys
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 Marlys. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Marlypleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley44 in the US (2017)
- Marlyn28 in the US (2017)
- Maelys9 in the US (2017)
- Marleypleasant lake or fen clearing395 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marleepleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley657 in the US (2017)
- Marilynbeloved by god; a form of Mary580 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Marlys
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