Marlen

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Marlen is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 792◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 953
  • HNHonduras1 in 1.3K

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

≈438K ●

across 15 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
226 ●

141K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 792 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

MarlenLatin · Spanish●185K records
ΜαρλενGreek · Greek●83 records
ՄառլենArmenian · Armenian●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marlene in GR Greece and Μαρλεν in CY Cyprus.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Marlen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—267,461△1.2K rec.1 in 792302KMarlen71
US United States—106,821△19K rec.1 in 3.1K107KMarlen226
MX Mexico#45373,81254K rec.—415Marlen140
FR France—32,2750 rec.1 in 2.1K32K—1
AR Argentina#95531,31017K rec.—121Marlen51
CO Colombia#39914,6687.9K rec.—9Marlen82
HN Honduras#7313,86314K rec.——Marlen27
EC Ecuador—12,660△47 rec.1 in 1.3K13K—19
CL Chile#6489,7061.4K rec.—3Marlen49
VE Venezuela—5,7873.4K rec.——Marlen28
CR Costa Rica#2505,3484.7K rec.1 in 9535.3KMarlen36
SE Sweden—4,455△36 rec.1 in 2.3K4.5KMarlen11

Roughly 267K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 792). 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●

  • Spanish185K64%
  • English35K12%
  • Portuguese18K6%
  • German14K5%
  • 4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish185,37564%
English35,21912%
Portuguese17,9136%
German14,0485%
4,0341%

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◐

Marlen is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name60K records spelled Marlen22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Norway, Costa Rica

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Marlén, Marlèn, Marlên, Mãrlën, Måŕlëņ

  • a separate given name4.5K records spelled Marlen3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Marlén, Marlèn

  • Russian given name3.6K records spelled Marlen32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Ukrainian

    Also written Марлен, Marlene, Марлэн, Marleen, Марлён

  • French given name1.8K records spelled Marlen4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Marlèn, Marlén

  • Indonesian given name1.6K records spelled Marlen2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Marlén

  • Finnish given name1.2K records spelled Marlen3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Marlén

  • Lao given name1.1K records spelled Marlen8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Chile

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Marlén, Märlën, Mařļêņ, Márlén, Mäřlëņ

  • Georgian given name772 records spelled Marlen4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia, United States, Russia

    Also written Მარლენ, Marlèn, Märlen

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●

Marlen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, To cover with marl.

    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●

0100200300192019401960198020002020263 · 2007

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Marlen in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19159
19165
19176
19187
19197
192010
192116
192213
19235
192412
192516
19266
192716
192811
19298
193012
193112
193212
193311
193416
193518
193623
193712
193826
19399
194010
194117
19429
19439
19445
194512
19468
194714
19486
194910
19518
195312
19546
195511
195610
19579
19588
19595
19609
19618
196211
196313
196421
196510
196613
196713
196816
196914
197016
197113
197217
197321
197420
197525
197627
197723
197830
197938
198044
198140
198256
198345
198444
198539
198640
198740
198858
198967
1990113
1991124
1992139
1993122
1994148
1995138
1996157
1997126
1998149
1999121
2000212
2001184
2002200
2003259
2004216
2005230
2006224
2007263
2008213
2009170
2010138
2011116
201293
201380
201458
201562
201663
201755
201855
201953
202056
202152
202247
202344
202444
202542

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 109 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●

19201940196019802000Marlen Khutsiev, b. 1925Marlen Spindler, b. 1931Marlèn Nolta, b. 1955Marlen Ferrer, b. 1973Marlen Angelidou, b. 1978Marlen Jöhrend, b. 1986Marlen Esparza, b. 1989Marlen Reusser, b. 1991Marlen Zmorka, b. 1993Marlen Kruse, b. 2000

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 67 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Marlen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.4K#2,456
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.9K#1,136
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1.8K#382
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#7,901
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—703#7,429
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—675#3,752
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020635#2,456
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—577#1,949
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025506—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—469#7,429
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—446#3,004

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 844 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marlen?
We estimate roughly 438 thousand people bear Marlen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Marlen have the most bearers?
We estimate about 267 thousand people bear Marlen in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marlen.
Where is Marlen most common?
Marlen is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 792 people carrying it.
How common is Marlen compared with other names?
In Honduras, Marlen is the 73rd most common given name of 23,431 given names recorded there.
Is Marlen a male or female name?
Marlen 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.
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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, “Marlen” — the 73rd most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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