Myrlene

Meaning & origin

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

Myrlene is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name2.5K records spelled Myrlene7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Philippines

  Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Myrlène, Myrléne

32 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1916–1971. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Dawn JonesNZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand netball umpire

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 · 53 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Myrlene?

We estimate roughly 537 people bear Myrlene (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.

In which country does Myrlene have the most bearers?

We estimate about 481 people bear Myrlene in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled myrlene.

Where is Myrlene most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Myrlene is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

Is Myrlene a male or female name?

Myrlene 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.