Marleigh

What Marleigh means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Marleigh yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #975 vs #2,605 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marleigh?

US: Steady: #901 in 2015, #975 now. England & Wales: Steady: #2705 in 2015, #2605 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 419 girls got the name (#689 that year). First in the US records in 1985.

How common

• About 1 in 6,158 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 25,328 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AL (1.2 per 1,000 girls), SC (0.93 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Marleigh is #975 in the US and #2605 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Marleigh were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marlei34 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Marleigh

Girls

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Kensley#741Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1987, with 8 babies
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

For a brother

• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Lennon#807“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Grayson#51“steward”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Marleigh’s. Rank is US 2025.