Meaning not yet researched.
Marlena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #430 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #430 in 1978; #2,983 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marlena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,983 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #430.
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Marlena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #430 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 470 (1978).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Marlena, making it the 2,983rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 573 places from #3,556 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 44 girls named Marlena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #430, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 470. For comparison, it was #2,494 in 2015 and #1,128 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlena in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 11,321 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,425 babies named Marlena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 644 US girls were named Marlena; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 82. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marlena ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #982 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marlene (130,932 babies since 1880), Marleen (4,121 babies since 1880) and Marlana (2,838 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marlaina, Marlayna and Marilena are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marlaina (1,395), Marlayna (888), Marilena (681), Marleyna (56), Marleana (40), Marleina (27), Marliana (23), Marlanna (16), Marlyna (10), Marlaena (10).
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 Marlena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #982 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,770 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,678 | #2,260 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,983 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 2002 | 140 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2000 | 156 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1999 | 179 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1998 | 219 | #946 | — | — |
| 1997 | 201 | #973 | — | — |
| 1996 | 211 | #927 | — | — |
| 1995 | 188 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1994 | 238 | #841 | — | — |
| 1993 | 249 | #807 | — | — |
| 1992 | 249 | #809 | — | — |
| 1991 | 238 | #844 | — | — |
| 1990 | 194 | #967 | — | — |
| 1989 | 207 | #891 | — | — |
| 1988 | 200 | #884 | — | — |
| 1987 | 216 | #812 | — | — |
| 1986 | 252 | #711 | — | — |
| 1985 | 231 | #752 | — | — |
| 1984 | 229 | #721 | — | — |
| 1983 | 244 | #701 | — | — |
| 1982 | 290 | #620 | — | — |
| 1981 | 255 | #681 | — | — |
| 1980 | 301 | #611 | — | — |
| 1979 | 387 | #511 | — | — |
| 1978 | 470 | #430 | — | — |
| 1977 | 423 | #464 | — | — |
| 1976 | 168 | #827 | — | — |
| 1975 | 135 | #941 | — | — |
| 1974 | 125 | #981 | — | — |
| 1973 | 113 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1972 | 102 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1971 | 115 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1970 | 126 | #992 | — | — |
| 1969 | 140 | #890 | — | — |
| 1968 | 116 | #961 | — | — |
| 1967 | 108 | #981 | — | — |
| 1966 | 96 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1965 | 98 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1964 | 107 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1963 | 93 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1962 | 86 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1960 | 71 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1957 | 64 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1955 | 83 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1954 | 104 | #949 | — | — |
| 1953 | 89 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1952 | 92 | #987 | — | — |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,501 | — | — |
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).