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How popular is the name Marley?
Births per year, rank history and how many Marleys are alive today.
Marley (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 125th in 2025 with 395 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2009, when 481 babies were given the name, the 124th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2021, with 444 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 7,700 babies have been named Marley in England and Wales since 1996.
The Marley you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old - or else around 16: the name has two living generations. Half of all Marleys born in England and Wales are between 5 and 17, and there are at least 8,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Marley.
How many babies are named Marley each year?
Where does Marley rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Marley most popular?
Marley peaked in 2009, when 481 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Marley?
At least 8,000 people named Marley born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Marley?
Most living Marleys are between 5 and 17; the most common age is about 4. There is a second cluster around 16.
Is Marley becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.