How Many People Are Named Marleen?
people named Marleen are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 107,176 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,121 babies named Marleen in Social Security records from 1926 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
133 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Dutch form and English variant of MARLENE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Marleen in English. Counting Marleen and these spellings together, about 85,850 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Marleen in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Marleen alive today is about 53 years old, and 51% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 32 and 74 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Marleen first appears in the records in 1926 and was given most often in 1951, to 133 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1926 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Marleen has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #747, in 1939. In 2025 it ranked #11,550.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #11,550 |
| Best rank | #747 (1939) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,041 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Marleen alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Marleen were born in California than in any other state: about 740 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Marleen was given 4.6 times as often in California, 1.8 times in Wisconsin and 1.6 times in New York.
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