Marilou

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marilou is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Blend of Marie and Louise; Hebrew Miryam and Germanic hlūd 'famous'.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 807◐
  • FRFrance1 in 11K
  • CACanada1 in 12K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈12K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
256 ●

257K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

Blend of Marie and Louise; Hebrew Miryam and Germanic hlūd 'famous'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Marilou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#69207,024180K rec.—138KMarilou102
CA Canada—6,9443K rec.—40Marilou112
FR France—5,9509K rec.1 in 11K6KMarilou200
US United States—5,88156K rec.1 in 57K5.9KMarilou256
GB United Kingdom—2,4942.2K rec.——Marilou50
AU Australia—1,5051.4K rec.—1Marilou51
BE Belgium—1,191190 rec.—56Marilou20
IT Italy—638637 rec.—listedMarilou19
SG Singapore—370335 rec.——Marilou24
DE Germany—316298 rec.—listedMarilou51
NL Netherlands—308294 rec.1 in 56K308Marilou29
SA Saudi Arabia—29346 rec.——Marilou17

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English142K42%
  • Spanish110K33%
  • French51K15%
  • Indonesian6.1K2%
  • 4.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English142,03142%
Spanish110,26733%
French51,03715%
Indonesian6,1192%
4,5791%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marilou is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name4.9K records spelled Marilou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines

    Also written Mari-Lou

  • Greek given name3.1K records spelled Marilou3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Greece, Canada

    Also written Μαριλού, Μαριλου

  • Polish given name418 records spelled Marilou15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Peru, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Marilu, Марилу, Marilú, Марилоу, Marilù

  • Italian given name280 records spelled Marilou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, Italy

    Also written Márilóŭ

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marilou is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Contraction de Marie-Louise; origines hébraïque (« goutte de mer ») et germanique (« victoire glorieuse »).

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Filipino, a diminutive of the female given name Maria Lourdes, from Spanish

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

025507510019201940196019802000202090 · 1948

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Marilou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2024
Yearrecords
191510
19168
19178
191816
191922
192010
192111
192216
192319
192431
192529
192646
192781
192870
192963
193080
193150
193266
193373
193475
193561
193650
193766
193855
193942
194061
194160
194272
194360
194477
194574
194669
194779
194890
194987
195079
195179
195285
195381
195473
195561
195665
195766
195864
195944
196058
196146
196235
196336
196429
196526
196616
196714
196821
196914
197024
197119
197212
197315
19748
197517
197611
197711
197811
197915
198014
198115
198316
19847
198518
19867
19878
198811
198910
199017
199112
19928
19946
19958
199614
19975
19986
19995
20008
20017
200210
20048
20076
20088
20115
20126
20138
20165
20175
20189
20195
20208
20215
20225
20236
20248

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1915–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Marilou Mermans, b. 1944Marilou McPhedran, b. 1951Marilou Diaz-Abaya, b. 1955Marilou Levin, b. 1967Marilou Berry, b. 1983Marilou Dozois-Prévost, b. 1986Marilou Katsafadou, b. 1987Marilou Bourdon, b. 1990Marilou Aussilloux, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Marilou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking2022138K#17
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20246K#580
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.9K#3,515
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—308#2,755
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—184#5,734
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2008184—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2006171—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2007163—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2009161—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2004160—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—158#5,656
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2011156—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 237 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marilou?
We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Marilou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Marilou have the most bearers?
Marilou is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled marilou.
How common is Marilou compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Marilou is the 69th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Marilou a male or female name?
Marilou is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Marilou mean?
Recorded meaning: Blend of Marie and Louise; Hebrew Miryam and Germanic hlūd 'famous'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marilou” — the 69th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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