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Marilyne

Girls' name

Combination of Marie and Line

Marilyne has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 18 recorded.

Babies named Marilyne, 1991

1 in 649,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marilyne: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Marie and Line

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marilyne means

Marilyne is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marilyne is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ma.ʁi.lin/ for Marilyne.

The naming story behind Marilyne

The reference identifies Marilyne as a combination of Marie and Line. This is a documented two-name formation.

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marie and Line.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 329 girls were recorded with the name Marilyne between 1922 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1936; its best national rank was #1,847 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 Marilyne?

Marilyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 649,000
6 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 312,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
449,730 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marilyne 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 1991 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 449,730 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marilyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marilynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marilyne was born before 1941 — so the typical Marilyne is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
60
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1940s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Marilyne 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 (18)
Years since peak
89
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,847
1936

Spellings of Marilyne

Marilyne is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 55.8% against Marilyne's 0.05%.

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 Marilyne is used

Across 1910–2025, Marilyne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Marilyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marilyne around the world

Where Marilyne 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
    1946–2025
    #3,667
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1945–1954
    #475
    in 1954

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

Marilyne 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
#1,847
1936
Peak year
1936
18 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
329
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marilyne

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

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Sibling names for Marilyne

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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