Márlene
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Márlene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 54th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Combination of Maria and Lene (from Helene or Magdalene). Best known for the actress Marlene Dietrich, baptized Maria Magdalene.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 573(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 792
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Márlene itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 573 (inferred from the name graph)
≈580,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marlene in BR Brazil, US United States, SV El Salvador and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Combination of Maria and Lene (from Helene or Magdalene). Best known for the actress Marlene Dietrich, baptized Maria Magdalene.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Márlene counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈580,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Marlene | 13 |
| BR Brazil | #130 | 267,461 | 1 in 792 | 302K | Marlene | 163 |
| US United States | — | 106,957 | 1 in 3.1K | 107K | Marlene | 358 |
| PL Poland | — | 48,612as Marlena | 1 in 788 | 49K | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Marlene | 64 |
| NI Nicaragua | #54 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 573 | — | Marlene | 34 |
| SV El Salvador | #135 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Marlene | 38 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,348 | 1 in 953 | 5.3K | — | 44 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Márlene mean, and where does it come from?
- Combination of Maria and Lene (from Helene or Magdalene). Best known for the actress Marlene Dietrich, baptized Maria Magdalene. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Márlene a male or female name?
- Márlene 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.
- In which country does Márlene have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 581 thousand people named Márlene in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marlene.
- How common is the name Márlene?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 267,461 people named Márlene in 2022, about 1 in 792 residents.
- How common is Márlene compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Márlene is the 54th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1rleneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Márlene” — the 54th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.