Marlei
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAR-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,171 for girls
Marlei is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “pleasant or boundary clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).
What does Marlei mean?
English: spelling of Marley, an English place-name surname
“pleasant or boundary clearing”
Spelling of Marley, from Old English place names; Bob Marley made the surname world famous.
Is Marlei a girl's or a boy's name?
Marlei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Marlei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,171st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 34 about 1 in 47,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Marlei, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,468th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 70 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Marlei in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,074 girls in the US were given Marlei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #175, up from #4,171 for this spelling alone.
Marlei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,171 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,018 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,386 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,821 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,751 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,468 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,752 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,049 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,964 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,060 |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,024 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,396 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,145 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,245 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
Names like Marlei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Miller, Harlow, Harper, Oakley, Collins, Leighton, Everly, Journee, Mila, Monroe, Journei, Adley
Other spellings of Marlei
Names related to Marlei
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Marlei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/marlei, updated 20 October 2026.