Meaning not yet researched.
Marleen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #747 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #747 in 1939; #11,554 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marleen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,554 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #747.
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Marleen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #747 in 1939 · most girls in one year: 133 (1951).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Marleen, making it the 11,554th most common girls’ name of the year, down 754 places from #10,800 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Marleen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #747, reached in 1939. The most girls given the name in a single year was 133, in 1951. For comparison, it was #7,166 in 2015 and #771 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marleen in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 6 babies. In all, 4,121 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 938 babies named Marleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 122 US girls were named Marleen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marlene (130,932 babies since 1880), Marlee (17,923 babies since 1880), Marlena (11,321 babies since 1880) and Marlon (31,292 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marleen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,554 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,800 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,390 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,905 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,151 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,758 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,007 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,333 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,994 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,819 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,166 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,405 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,948 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,872 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,056 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,488 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,768 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,439 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,894 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,764 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,411 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,079 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,491 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1955 | 99 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1954 | 122 | #862 | — | — |
| 1953 | 132 | #801 | — | — |
| 1952 | 117 | #852 | — | — |
| 1951 | 133 | #770 | — | — |
| 1950 | 126 | #771 | — | — |
| 1949 | 108 | #851 | — | — |
| 1948 | 116 | #804 | — | — |
| 1947 | 103 | #865 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #905 | — | — |
| 1945 | 78 | #852 | — | — |
| 1944 | 66 | #958 | — | — |
| 1943 | 81 | #868 | — | — |
| 1942 | 68 | #953 | — | — |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1940 | 72 | #845 | — | — |
| 1939 | 85 | #747 | — | — |
| 1938 | 51 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1937 | 56 | #926 | — | — |
| 1936 | 55 | #927 | — | — |
| 1935 | 47 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,544 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,178 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,652 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).