Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Marlou

#32,356 most common girls' name of all time · #52,135 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1930–1960

Rank among girls
#32,356
Rank overall
#52,135 of 105,966
First appeared
1930
Years on the list
9 of 146
All-time
49
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1943 #4,112
Best rank
#4,112 1943
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19401960

Marlou first appears in 1930. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1960 5 — 5 #6,786
1950 5 — 5 #5,770
1949 5 — 5 #5,759
1948 5 — 5 #5,713
1947 6 — 6 #5,100
1943 7 — 7 #4,112
1936 5 — 5 #4,747
1935 6 — 6 #4,151
1930 5 — 5 #5,218