Marilena

#7,741 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Maria and Elena

Marilena has been given to 681 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #7,741 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Marilena, 2025

1 in 237,000

Marilena over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marilena: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Maria and Elena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marilena means

Marilena is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marilena is used in Italian, Romanian and Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ma.ri.ˈlɛ.na/ for Marilena.

The naming story behind Marilena

The reference identifies Marilena as a combination of Maria and Elena. This is a documented two-name formation.

The histories of Maria and Elena belong to their separate source entries. The source does not identify every bearer’s family motivation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and Elena.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 681 girls were recorded with the name Marilena between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,439 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,106 in 2020 to #7,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,760 in 2015 to #7,741 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Marilena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 115,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,741; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marilena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marilena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marilenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marilena was born before 2001 — so the typical Marilena is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 676; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Marilena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +84; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −635; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,019; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.08×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 66.7%; Peak was 2021 (21)
Years since peak: 4; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,439; 1972

Spellings of Marilena

Marilena is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 52.3% against Marilena's 0.10%.

Marilyn52.3%373,791
Marlene18.3%130,573
Mariana6.4%45,887
Marina5.5%39,514
Marianna2.6%18,444
Marilynn1.9%13,282
Maricela1.8%13,077
Mariela1.6%11,660

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marilena is used

Across 1910–2025, Marilena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 647,620 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New York1 in —
3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marilena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marilena around the world

Where Marilena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1997–2022
#5,670
in 2022
France
1954–1977
#1,654
in 1977
Canada
1999–2023
#3,391
in 2023
South Australia
1959–2001
#711
in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marilena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 635
Best rank ever: #4,439; 1972
Peak year: 2021; 21 that year
First recorded: 1948
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 681
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Marilena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Marielena Marialena Marena Marleena Mariaelena Mareena Marcena Marthena Marlena Mariena Marcille Marvena Maryella Marlayna Margeaux Marionna Martena Mariposa Maryjean Maryetta Marsena Marielys Marlaina Markella

Sibling names for Marilena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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