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Baby name
Marilyn
Girl
Origin of the name
Marilyn is an English name formed on Mary. The actress Marilyn Monroe made it famous.
Classic name
373,791births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 29rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named Marilyn are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Marilyn is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Marilyn is most common in Iowa (2.2 times), Nebraska (2) and South Dakota (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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