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Marlana

#14,313 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marlana has been given to 2,838 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #14,313 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 169 recorded.

Babies named Marlana, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marlana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marlana means

Marlana is a given name.

The naming story behind Marlana

Wikidata records Marlana as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q95485219, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,838 girls were recorded with the name Marlana between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 169 in 1978; its best national rank was #870 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,751 in 2020 to #14,313 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,611 in 2015 to #14,313 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.

How common is Marlana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,313
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marlana 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marlanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlana was born before 1983 — so the typical Marlana is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,751
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (805).

Is Marlana 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
−5,562
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,702
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 1978 (169)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#870
1978

Spellings of Marlana

Marlana is not the most common spelling — Marian is, with 17.2% against Marlana's 0.34%.

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 Marlana is used

Across 1910–2025, Marlana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 194,435 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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

Marlana around the world

Where Marlana 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.

  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,118
    in 1992

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marlana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,562
Best rank ever
#870
1978
Peak year
1978
169 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,838
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Marlana

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

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Names with a curve like Marlana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marlana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Marlana

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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