Marylene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marylene has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1937, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Marylene, 1961
1 in 828,000
Marylene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marylene?
Marylene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1961
- 1 in 828,000
- 5 of 4,142,426 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 404,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1961
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 574,263 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marylene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 574,263 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marylene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marylenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marylene was born before 1937 — so the typical Marylene is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 29.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 48
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Marylene 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 1937 (14)
- Years since peak
- 88
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.7% average annual change
Spellings of Marylene
Marylene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 31.7% against Marylene'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.
Marylene around the world
Where Marylene 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.
- France1936–2009#5,145in 2009
- Canada1991–1997#2,443in 1997
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.
Marylene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marylene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marylene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.