Marlow
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, or a different form of Marley
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɑɹɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marlow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 21K
- USUnited States1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
13,205 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, or a different form of Marley
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marlow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 13,205 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Marlow | 402 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3 | Marlow | 198 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 3 | Marlow | 85 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Marlow | 131 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Marlow | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 13 | Marlow | 49 |
| IS Iceland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Marlow | 3 |
13,205 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marlow is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Marlow (Buckinghamshire); first attested Edric Merlaue 1066 DB (Buckinghamshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, 1. habitational name from the place in Buckinghamshire on the Thames, named in Old English with mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ -f- Idfe ‘remnants’, ‘leavings’, i.e. a boggy area remaining after a lake had been drained. 2. possibly also a variant of Marley.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Bucks., on the Thames, so called from OE mere lake, pool + Idfe remnants, leavings, i.e. a boggy area remaining after a lake had been drained. 2. var. of Marley. Marrel see Morrell Marrington see Meriton
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A common placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Historia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Marlowb. 1740GBEnglish artist (1740-1813)
- Len Marlowb. 1899GBEnglish footballer (1899-1975)
- Geoff Marlowb. 1914GBfootballer (1914-1978)
- Fred Marlowb. 1928GBEnglish association football player (1928-2013)
- Jess Marlowb. 1929USAmerican journalist
- Lucy Marlowb. 1932USAmerican actress
- Richard Marlowb. 1939GBBritish musician (1939–2013)
- Alex Marlowb. 1986USAmerican journalist, editor, political commentator, radio talk show host
- Ellen Marlowb. 1994USAmerican actress
- Toby Marlowb. 1994GBBritish composer, writer and actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,817 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Marlow?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑɹɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Marlow mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, or a different form of Marley Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Marlow have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Marlow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marlow.
- How common is the name Marlow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,205 people named Marlow in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marlowThe 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, “Marlow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.