Entry № 6555 · English origin

Marley Marley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAR-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pleasant wood, marten meadow"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "pleasant wood, marten meadow".

Marley comes from an English surname meaning "pleasant wood" or "marten meadow" — from Old English roots.

Marley entered the U.S. top 1000 as a girls' name in 1996 and has been climbing. Today it sits in the U.S. top 300.

Pleasant wood, marten meadow — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Marley
Transliteration
Marley
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːr.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marley stands.

Marley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Marleys before her.

Real people
Marley Shelton
American actress.
born 1974
In fiction
Marley
Yellow Labrador in Marley & Me.
2005 memoir / 2008 film

Names connected to Marley.

The number behind Marley.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marley reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.