Marlei
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marlei is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 19K◐
- PYParaguay1 in 485K
- PTPortugal1 in 525K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- Sources
- 83 ●
- 1 in 19K ◐
across 4 countries
7.5K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 11,173 | 6.9K rec. | 1 in 19K | 13K | Marlei | 83 |
| US United States | 456 | 264 rec. | 1 in 729K | 456 | Marlei | 53 |
| PY Paraguay | 65 | 23 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 59 | 41 rec. | — | 2 | Marlei | 8 |
| PH Philippines | 57 | 22 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 5 |
| CO Colombia | 43 | 29 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 10 |
| VE Venezuela | 41 | 39 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 6 |
| AU Australia | 31 | 28 rec. | — | 1 | Marlei | 12 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 15 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 9 |
| DE Germany | 17 | 21 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 6 |
| PT Portugal | 16 | 13 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 8 |
| MX Mexico | 15 | 14 rec. | — | — | Marlei | 8 |
Roughly 11K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 19K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese186K94%
- English11K6%
- Spanish2471%
- ptbr921%
- 321%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 185,747 | 94% |
| English | 11,416 | 6% |
| Spanish | 247 | 1% |
| ptbr | 92 | 1% |
| 32 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 28 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 39 |
| 2015 | 56 |
| 2016 | 54 |
| 2017 | 55 |
| 2018 | 53 |
| 2019 | 61 |
| 2020 | 70 |
| 2021 | 62 |
| 2022 | 60 |
| 2023 | 47 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 34 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 21 years between 2002–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 13K | #1,841 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 11K | #867 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.7K | #1,575 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 8.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 3.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 3.4K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marlei?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Marlei (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marlei have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Marlei in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marlei.
- Where is Marlei most common?
- Marlei is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Marlei a male or female name?
- Marlei 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Marlei”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.