Marley comes from an English surname meaning "pleasant wood" or "marten meadow" — from Old English roots. Bob Marley (1945-1981), the Jamaican reggae icon, made the name globally famous.
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.
Marley reduces to one — the number of free pleasant motion.