Is Marley a male or female name?
Marley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 86% and male usage in England and Wales at 77%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 67%
- Sample size
- 57,037
- Confidence
- high
Marley by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 86% | 37,250 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 77% | 10,544 | ons |
| France FR | male | 80% | 6,055 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 87% | 2,732 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 73% | 203 | bfs |
| Ireland IE | male | 52% | 154 | cso |
| Austria AT | male | 53% | 57 | statat |
| Poland PL | male | 69% | 42 | pesel |
Attested in 14 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · NZ · PL · SE · US
Marley over time
In the United States, 87.9% of the babies named Marley in the 1970s were girls, against 86.8% in the 2020s. In France, 8.3% of the babies named Marley in the 2000s were girls, against 24% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 88% | 141 | — | |
| 1980s | 81% | 616 | — | |
| 1990s | 87% | 2,336 | — | |
| 2000s | 87% | 10,287 | 8% | 605 |
| 2010s | 86% | 16,487 | 21% | 3,555 |
| 2020s | 87% | 7,003 | 24% | 1,835 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Marley with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Marley&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Marley
Is Marley a male or female name?
Marley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 86% and male usage in England and Wales at 77%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Marley change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Marley identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.