Marylou
Marylou is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 27 births. Its best rank was 350th, in 1937.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 270.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1942376 births
- Best rank
- #350in 1937
- Since 1898
- 13,084people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,084 girls have been named Marylou in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1942, with 376 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 24%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marylou | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 54 | |
| 1910s | 313 | |
| 1920s | 1,251 | |
| 1930s | 2,621 | |
| 1940s | 3,141 | |
| 1950s | 2,128 | |
| 1960s | 1,598 | |
| 1970s | 536 | |
| 1980s | 517 | |
| 1990s | 356 | |
| 2000s | 209 | |
| 2010s | 228 | |
| 2020s | 120 |
In 1942, its biggest year
Marylou was the 361st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1942 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Linda and Carol. See all of 1942.
Names that rose and fell with Marylou
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosemariepeak 1936
- Donnispeak 1948
- Carylpeak 1947
- Joycepeak 1942
- Bettyannpeak 1943
- Dottypeak 1945
- Joeannpeak 1941
- Beverlypeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.