Meaning of the nameMarly

Marly is a spelling of the name Marli.

Meaning

The meaning of Marly is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022): 30,412
Rank in Brazil: #817
Median age: 58 years
2010 Census: 24,515; people

Marly in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Marly, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (8,919 people).

30,186 women 226 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Marly is most common

States with the highest share of people named Marly in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Goiás 0.028%
Rio de Janeiro 0.027%
Espírito Santo 0.026%
Minas Gerais 0.024%
Amazonas 0.021%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	5,447	0.012%
Minas Gerais	4,840	0.024%
Rio de Janeiro	4,270	0.027%
Goiás	1,954	0.028%
Bahia	1,614	0.011%
Paraná	1,499	0.013%
Pará	1,344	0.017%
Maranhão	1,101	0.016%
Espírito Santo	1,003	0.026%
Santa Catarina	854	0.011%
Amazonas	830	0.021%
Pernambuco	821	0.009%
Rio Grande do Sul	661	0.006%
Mato Grosso	571	0.016%
Distrito Federal	549	0.020%
Ceará	491	0.006%
Mato Grosso do Sul	464	0.017%
Paraíba	349	0.009%
Tocantins	309	0.020%
Piauí	265	0.008%
Alagoas	251	0.008%
Rondônia	247	0.016%
Rio Grande do Norte	209	0.006%
Sergipe	207	0.009%
Amapá	122	0.017%
Roraima	85	0.013%
Acre	55	0.007%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Marly

It keeps the final Y of the French form Marly, the name of the place.

About the name Marli

According to Machado (1981), cited by the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), Marli comes from the French Marly, which was a place name before it was a personal name; the entry for Marly in the same dictionary defines it as a village in France. The meaning of the place name is not known for certain. The dictionary lists Marly and Marliy as spelling variants of Marli. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 182,025 people named Marli, with a median age of 56. The name is almost always female, peaked among people born in the 1960s, became rare among those born from the 1990s onward and, proportionally, is most common in Santa Catarina.

Other spellings of Marli

Spelling	People (2022)
Marli	182,025
Marly	30,412

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Marli · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Marly · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Marly

What does the name Marly mean?

The meaning of Marly is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Marly in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 30,412 people with the first name Marly, which ranks it number 817 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Marly a boy's or a girl's name?

Marly is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 30,186 women and 226 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Marly?

Marly is a name of French origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Marly most common?

Proportionally, in Goiás: 0.028% of the state's population is named Marly (1,954 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Marly?

Marli. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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