Marleigh
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Marshy Meadow. Also Variant Of Marlene Woman From Magdala.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Marleigh
Marleigh is a contemporary respelling whose roots reach in two directions: toward the English place-name sense of "marshy meadow," and toward Marlene, a name traditionally tied to "the woman from Magdala." The fashionable -leigh ending gives it a soft, modern polish, recasting an old landscape word into a name with a distinctly current, feminine look. The spelling is the headline; the sound remains warm and familiar.
That stylish ending places it among a popular group of names that swap plainer finishes for the breezy -leigh, a touch prized for being at once familiar in sound and individual on paper. Marleigh reads as easygoing and fresh, with a gentle, two-syllable lilt that feels relaxed rather than formal. It fits naturally among the wave of soft, meadow-and-marsh inspired names that have charmed parents looking for something pretty but unfussy.
As a girls' name, Marleigh first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2009 and reached its peak in 2021 at #690. It remained in the rankings as recently as 2024, when it sat at #912, and across its tracked years it accounted for 3,799 births among the top-1000 — a sustained and steady run. Recorded variants include Marley and Marlie, offering simpler, more phonetic spellings of the same warm and breezy sound.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Marleigh
US Popularity History (2009–2025)
Annual US births named Marleigh by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2021 with 418 girls named Marleigh (girl rank #690 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #976 for girls (261 US births). That's 286 places below its 2021 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Marleigh Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Marleigh the strongest states are Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | #294 | 161 |
| 2 | Mississippi | #320 | 84 |
| 3 | Louisiana | #323 | 154 |
| 4 | South Carolina | #473 | 101 |
| 5 | Arkansas | #519 | 60 |
| 6 | North Carolina | #528 | 181 |
| 7 | Georgia | #534 | 195 |
| 8 | Indiana | #604 | 109 |
| 9 | Missouri | #611 | 81 |
| 10 | Maryland | #614 | 81 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Marleigh in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Marleigh against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).