Marlene

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Marlene is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: German; old French. Meaning unclear in OCR; related to Marlee.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 757◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 792
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 807

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

≈486K ●

across 12 countries

#446 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
325 ●

776K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 788 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

MarleneLatin · Portuguese●4.7M records
מרלןHebrew · Hebrew●4.8K records

Locally spelled Marlène in FR France, NL Netherlands and מרלן in IL Israel.

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●

German; old French. Meaning unclear in OCR; related to Marlee.

Sources 1

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Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Marlene is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#110267,461137K rec.1 in 792302KMarlene161
PE Peru#214152,407119K rec.——Marlene74
AR Argentina#481141,73374K rec.—121Marlene74
VE Venezuela#193131,62966K rec.——Marlene55
US United States—106,821118K rec.1 in 3.1K107KMarlene325
MX Mexico#37297,17971K rec.—415Marlene168
CL Chile#23461,4774.2K rec.—3Marlene89
PL Poland—48,612△4 rec.1 in 78849K—3
PY Paraguay#5941,68120K rec.——Marlene41
SV El Salvador#11333,60028K rec.——Marlene38
FR France#89132,27522K rec.1 in 2.1K32KMarlène192
EC Ecuador#20412,660△941 rec.1 in 1.3K13KMarlene44

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.

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Languages●

  • Portuguese4.7M62%
  • English1.5M19%
  • Spanish815K11%
  • French175K2%
  • German110K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese4,732,85762%
English1,480,14419%
Spanish814,73711%
French175,3992%
German109,6501%

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◐

Marlene is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.8M records spelled Marlene37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Marlène, Marléne, Marlené, Marlêne, Mar-Lene

  • a separate given name69K records spelled Marlene3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Marlène, Marléne

  • Swahili given name9.2K records spelled Marlene9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Marlène, Marlené, Marléne

  • Polish given name9.1K records spelled Marlene32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Marlen, Марлен, Марлене, Marléne, Marlène

  • Finnish given name6.9K records spelled Marlene4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Marlène, Marléne

  • Vietnamese given name3.2K records spelled Marlene3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Vietnam, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

    Also written Marlène

72 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●

Marlene is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name from Hebrew borrowed from German in early 20th century.

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

  • In Swedish, Marlene (m.fl. former) är ett tyskt namn, en sammanslagning av → Marie och → Magda lena. En känd namnbärare är filmstjärnan Marlene Dietrich (1901–92), från början Maria Magdalena. I den rikssvenska almanackan 4 april och i den finlandssvenska 15 augusti.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Spanish, contracción alemana de Marie y Helene

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Contraction de Marie et Madeleine; origine mixte hébraïque/araméenne.

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

  • In English, Modern form, often from Mary Magdalene.

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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●

02K4K6K195020005.3K · 1936

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Marlene in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1904–2025
Yearrecords
19045
19066
19097
191010
191111
19128
191322
191421
191533
191625
191740
191846
191947
192056
192143
192259
1923114
192473
192558
192663
192780
192899
1929129
1930306
19312,585
19323,219
19334,045
19343,755
19354,830
19365,332
19375,037
19384,473
19393,773
19403,118
19413,068
19423,253
19432,857
19442,566
19452,528
19462,818
19472,989
19483,053
19493,045
19503,130
19513,007
19523,132
19532,767
19542,651
19552,566
19562,128
19572,126
19581,964
19591,780
19601,645
19611,638
19621,557
19631,554
19641,289
19651,212
19661,141
19671,022
19681,004
1969889
1970862
1971735
1972655
1973529
1974548
1975493
1976492
1977492
1978456
1979466
1980440
1981449
1982481
1983457
1984437
1985445
1986478
1987492
1988489
1989601
1990670
1991752
1992716
1993612
1994561
1995577
1996519
1997448
1998429
1999432
2000519
2001487
2002510
2003559
2004606
2005537
2006591
2007591
2008491
2009392
2010293
2011299
2012257
2013230
2014211
2015216
2016199
2017194
2018163
2019160
2020135
2021141
2022191
2023167
2024137
2025177

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 119 years between 1904–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Marlene Dietrich, b. 1901Mitzi Gaynor, b. 1931Marlene Schmidt, b. 1937Marlene Willoughby, b. 1948Marlene Dumas, b. 1953Marlene Forte, b. 1961I. Marlene King, b. 1962Kelly Madison, b. 1967Marlene Favela, b. 1976Marlene Weingärtner, b. 1980

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 91 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Marlene
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—302K#167
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022267K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—266K#117
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020107K#529
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202413K#166
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20249.4K#51
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5.3K#135
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.5K#660
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4.1K#715
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—3.3K#183
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#1,512
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.3K—

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 1,151 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marlene?
We estimate roughly 486 thousand people bear Marlene (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Marlene have the most bearers?
We estimate about 267 thousand people bear Marlene in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marlene.
How common is Marlene compared with other names?
In Brazil, Marlene is the 110th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Marlene a male or female name?
Marlene 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 Marlene mean?
Recorded meaning: German; old French. Meaning unclear in OCR; related to Marlee.
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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, “Marlene” — the 110th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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