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Girl · Old English
Marley
Say it: MAR-lee
Meaning
From an English surname taken from place names, from Old English leah 'clearing' with a first element that may be 'boundary', 'pleasant' or 'marten'.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Associated with Bob Marley, it rose as a girls' name in the US from the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 31,835 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 2008, about 1 in 802 girls
- 1,588 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Marlee, Marleigh
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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