Marzena

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Marzena has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1995, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Marzena, 1995

1 in 458,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marzena: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marzena means

Marzena is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Marzena is used in Polish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Marzena is pronounced /maˈʐɛ.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Marzena between 1980 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1995; its best national rank was #10,170 in 1995.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marzena?

Marzena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995: 1 in 458,000; 8 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only: 1 in 220,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,138 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marzena 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 1995 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 317,138 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marzena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marzenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marzena was born before 1982 — so the typical Marzena is around 43 today.

Median birth year: 1982; About 43 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Marzena 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 1995 (8)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,170; 1995

Spellings of Marzena

Marzena is not the most common spelling — Marlene is, with 39.5% against Marzena's <0.01%.

Marlene39.5%130,573
Mariana13.9%45,887
Marina11.9%39,514
Martina5.6%18,498
Maren3.9%13,059
Mariela3.5%11,660
Marlena3.4%11,321
Marcela2.7%8,955

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.

Marzena around the world

Where Marzena 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.

Norway
1880–1994
#555
in 1994

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Marzena 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: #10,170; 1995
Peak year: 1995; 8 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 1995
All-time count: 18
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marzena

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

Margena Mardena Markena Marsena Marlaena Martena Marvena Mariena Marylena Marcelena Marthena Mariahelena Marcena Marieth Marsheena Mareena Marelys Marziya Marialena Mariamu Marleena Mariham Marilena Maryeli

Sibling names for Marzena

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

Salena Corrina Darby Alexandrea Iman Breonna Fabiola Berenice

For a brother

Hernan Rashawn Travon Austen Deonte Denton Austyn Claudio

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