Marylee

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
13
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Marylee by the numbers

Marylee was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 89 babies in 1941, so it is a 1940s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Marylee

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 Marylee. 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)
  • Maylee211 in the US (2017)
  • Marilee12 in the US (2017)
  • Makylee5 in the US (2017)
  • Marleypleasant lake or fen clearing395 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Marlenebeloved; a form of Magdalene191 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Marylee

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