Marlana
Recorded 1940–2025 · United States
Marlana was most popular in 1978, when 169 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,480 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,838 people named Marlana.
Marlana over time
How old is the name Marlana?
Marlana first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1940, which makes it about 85 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 84 of the 86 years since.
How many people are named Marlana?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,838 American births named Marlana between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,687 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Marlana in 2025?
6 American babies were named Marlana in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Marlana getting more or less popular?
Marlana is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 10 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Marlana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Marlana is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,838 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Marlana?
Roughly 2,687 Americans named Marlana are alive today — 95% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 42 years old, and half are between 33 and 49.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Marlana is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org