Marleena

Girls' name

Contraction of Marja-Leena

Marleena has been given to 181 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1999, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Marleena, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marleena: meaning, origin, and history

Contraction of Marja-Leena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marleena means

Marleena is a contraction of Marja-Leena.

Origin, language, and formation

Marleena is used in Finnish.

Marleena comes through German Marlene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marja-Leena.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Marleena is pronounced /ˈmɑrleːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 181 girls were recorded with the name Marleena between 1962 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1999; its best national rank was #6,217 in 1978.

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 Marleena?

Marleena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 617,000; 6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 297,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 427,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marleena 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marleena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marleenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marleena was born before 1996 — so the typical Marleena is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 70.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 181; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Marleena 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 1999 (13)
Years since peak: 26; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,217; 1978

Spellings of Marleena

Marleena is not the most common spelling — Marlene is, with 52.9% against Marleena's 0.07%.

Marlene52.9%130,573
Marlee7.2%17,654
Arleen5.1%12,611
Aleena5.1%12,535
Marlena4.6%11,321
Darleen3.4%8,332
Carleen2.7%6,744
Marlen2.2%5,512

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 Marleena is used

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

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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

Marleena 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: #6,217; 1978
Peak year: 1999; 13 that year
First recorded: 1962
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 181
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marleena

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

Marialena Marilena Marthena Marcena Mariena Marvena Mareena Marielena Martena Marsena Marena Marieelena Margalit Mariahelena Marianny Marliyah Marializ Mariyana Mariaelena Marieliz Marlaena Marlette Marciana Markella

Sibling names for Marleena

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

Tatianna Caleigh Chyna Kaylah Calista Destini Carson Kayley

For a brother

Jaren Reyes Stone Devyn Garrison Tyrese Josef Donavon

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