Marjolaine

Girls' name

From French Marjolaine; literal meaning unconfirmed

Marjolaine has been given to 11 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 1922, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Marjolaine, 1923

1 in 460,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marjolaine: meaning, origin, and history

From French Marjolaine; literal meaning unconfirmed

French

What Marjolaine means

Marjolaine is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Marjolaine is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Marjolaine comes through French Marjolaine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Marjolaine is pronounced /maʁ.ʒɔ.lɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Marjolaine between 1922 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,813 in 1922.

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.

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How common is Marjolaine?

Marjolaine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923: 1 in 460,000; 5 of 2,302,410 births
Among girls only: 1 in 241,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1923: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 319,183 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marjolaine 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 1923 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 319,183 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marjolaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marjolaines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marjolaine was born before 1922 — so the typical Marjolaine is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Marjolaine 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (6)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,813; 1922

Marjolaine around the world

Where Marjolaine 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
1901–2021
#4,947
in 2021
Canada
1991–2014
#3,202
in 2014

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.

Marjolaine 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,813; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 6 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1923
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marjolaine

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

Sibling names for Marjolaine

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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