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Marilene

Girls' name

Variant of Marlene

Marilene has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1936, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Marilene, 1964

1 in 648,000

Marilene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marilene: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marlene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marilene means

Marilene is a variant of Marlene.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marilene is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marlene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 143 girls were recorded with the name Marilene between 1919 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1936; its best national rank was #2,634 in 1936.

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.

How common is Marilene?

Marilene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 648,000
6 of 3,887,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
449,098 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marilene 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 1964 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 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marilene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marilenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marilene was born before 1937 — so the typical Marilene is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Marilene 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1936 (11)
Years since peak
89
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,634
1936

Spellings of Marilene

Marilene is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 35.5% against Marilene's 0.01%.

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.

Marilene around the world

Where Marilene 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.

  • France
    1933–2004
    #5,723
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1991–1992
    #1,902
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marilene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,634
1936
Peak year
1936
11 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marilene

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

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Sibling names for Marilene

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

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