Recorded 1912–2025 · United States
Marlowe was most popular in 2025, when 611 American babies were given the name — ranking #996 that year. In 2025 it ranked #996, with 611 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 6,467 people named Marlowe.
Marlowe first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 114 of the 114 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 6,467 American births named Marlowe 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 5,775 are estimated to be alive today.
611 American babies were named Marlowe in 2025, ranking #996 that year.
Marlowe is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 444 births a year, against 175 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +153% over the decade.
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.
Across the whole record Marlowe is a unisex name — 74.3% of the 6,467 Americans given it were girls and 25.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 2002 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 92% girls and 8% 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.
Roughly 5,775 Americans named Marlowe are alive today — 89% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 8 years old, and half are between 3 and 14. That is a narrow band because Marlowe is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
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.
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