Meaning not yet researched.
Marlen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #918 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #918 in 2003; #3,626 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Marlen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,626 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #918.
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Marlen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #918 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 263 (2007).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Marlen, making it the 3,626th most common girls’ name of the year, down 71 places from #3,555 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 44 girls named Marlen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #918, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 263, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,836 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Marlen, making it the 11,514th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,327, reached in 1938. That year also had the most boys given the name: 26. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlen in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 9 babies. In all, 6,438 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,253 babies named Marlen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US girls were named Marlen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marlene (130,932 babies since 1880), Marlon (31,292 babies since 1880), Marlin (22,834 babies since 1880) and Marlyn (9,112 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.
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 Marlen 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 | 42 | #3,626 | 6 | #11,514 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,558 | 5 | #13,455 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,144 | 5 | #13,374 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,921 | 5 | #13,354 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,993 | 8 | #9,348 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,321 | 9 | #8,530 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 2011 | 116 | #1,766 | 5 | #13,621 |
| 2010 | 138 | #1,588 | 9 | #8,551 |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,394 | 8 | #9,567 |
| 2008 | 213 | #1,197 | 12 | #7,043 |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,008 | 5 | #13,678 |
| 2006 | 224 | #1,119 | 7 | #10,261 |
| 2005 | 230 | #1,041 | 11 | #6,936 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,071 | 10 | #7,348 |
| 2003 | 259 | #918 | 13 | #5,772 |
| 2002 | 200 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 2001 | 184 | #1,138 | 10 | #6,767 |
| 2000 | 212 | #1,000 | 6 | #9,873 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,448 | 8 | #7,610 |
| 1998 | 149 | #1,227 | 13 | #5,080 |
| 1997 | 126 | #1,367 | 10 | #5,934 |
| 1996 | 157 | #1,161 | 10 | #5,821 |
| 1995 | 138 | #1,240 | 17 | #3,792 |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,197 | 7 | #7,478 |
| 1993 | 122 | #1,357 | 9 | #6,063 |
| 1992 | 139 | #1,250 | 10 | #5,509 |
| 1991 | 124 | #1,331 | 13 | #4,389 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,404 | 8 | #6,198 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,938 | 8 | #6,012 |
| 1988 | 58 | #2,044 | 9 | #5,065 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,551 | 6 | #6,651 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,493 | 6 | #6,433 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,524 | 6 | #6,244 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,253 | 7 | #5,353 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,912 | 7 | #5,389 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,431 | 8 | #4,797 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,270 | 7 | #5,298 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,334 | 8 | #4,436 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,836 | 14 | #2,907 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,928 | 13 | #3,018 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,383 | 10 | #3,479 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,189 | 16 | #2,465 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,656 | 17 | #2,300 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,718 | 13 | #2,764 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,810 | 10 | #3,197 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,404 | 5 | #4,522 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,773 | 6 | #3,821 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,675 | 9 | #2,907 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,389 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,791 | 8 | #3,187 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,741 | 7 | #3,538 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,175 | 6 | #3,879 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,138 | 6 | #3,906 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,504 | 9 | #3,001 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,854 | 8 | #3,187 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,830 | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,077 | 10 | #2,729 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,398 | 11 | #2,513 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,686 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,355 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,926 | 8 | #2,983 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,551 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,050 | 5 | #3,999 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,617 | 14 | #2,134 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,865 | 8 | #2,828 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,355 | 12 | #2,088 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,739 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,672 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,622 | 9 | #2,642 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,166 | 17 | #1,732 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,431 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,558 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,752 | 26 | #1,327 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,081 | 12 | #2,159 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,019 | 23 | #1,408 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,693 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,733 | 16 | #1,830 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,297 | 11 | #2,313 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,232 | 12 | #2,274 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,283 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,398 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,151 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,594 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,096 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,027 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,053 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,574 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,645 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,429 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,118 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,891 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,620 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,587 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,821 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,278 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,747 |
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).