Marlo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: corncob
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
- Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈmaɾ.lo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Marlo is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 27Kfew records
- ECEcuador1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marlo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)corncob
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Marlo, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marlo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Marlo | 82 |
| US United States | 8,723 | 1 in 38K | 5.8K | Marlo | 362 |
| BR Brazil | 1,777 | 1 in 119K | 2.2K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 3 | Marlo | 65 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Marlo | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 2 | Marlo | 96 |
| EC Ecuador | 606 | 1 in 28K | 606 | — | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 10 | Marlo | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marlo Lewisb. 1916USAmerican television producer
- Marlo Hoogstratenb. 1993AUDutch DJ based in Australia
- Marlo Kellyb. 1996AUAustralian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Marlo a male or female name?
- Marlo is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Brazil (IBGE): listed as male; Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Marlo mean, and where does it come from?
- corncob Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Marlo?
- In Spanish /ˈmaɾ.lo/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Marlo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Marlo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marlo. After it come United States, Brazil, United Kingdom and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Marlo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,723 people named Marlo in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marlo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marloThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marlo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.