Marlee

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mola in PH Philippines, AR Argentina, FR France and 5 more, Mala in NP Nepal, NG Nigeria, GB United Kingdom and 3 more, Mal in IN India, PK Pakistan and Malla in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Marlee is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name429 records spelled Marlee4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Canada

  Also written Marlée, Marlèe

• Portuguese given name49 records spelled Marlee52 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian

  Also written Marli, Marly, Марли, Marlí, Marley

43 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●

Marlee 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 English, Aboriginal; an elder tree. See Marlene.

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• In German, ['modi:]: weibl.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 96 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Marlee Matlinb. 1965USAmerican actress (born 1965)
• Marlee Scottb. 1986CACanadian singer
• Marlee Robertsb. 1992USAmerican actress
• Nesta Cooperb. 1993CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
• Marlee Frayb. 2000JMJamaican-American soccer player
• Marlee Van Der Merweactress
• Mary Tainot in their usual nameUS nutrition scholar

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 252 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marlee?

We estimate roughly 1.8 million people bear Marlee (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Marlee have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.5 million people bear Marlee in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled malla.

Where is Marlee most common?

Marlee is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 139 people carrying it.

How common is Marlee compared with other names?

In India, Marlee is the 135th most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.

Is Marlee a male or female name?

Marlee 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 Marlee mean?

Recorded meaning: A surname from Old English.