Marlène
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/maʁlɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marlène is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 54th most common given name.
- 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 Marlène 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 573 (inferred from the name graph)
267,461 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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, VE Venezuela 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marlène 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| VE Venezuela | #159 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Marlene | 57 |
| 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 |
267,461 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marlène Racine-Toussaintb. 1939HTHaitian writer
- Marlène Jobertb. 1940FRFrench actress and author
- Marlène Zaraderb. 1949FRFrench philosopher & academic
- Marlène Mourreaub. 1969FRFrench television presenter and Vedette
- Marlène Laruelleb. 1972FRFrench historian
- Marlène Blinb. 1975FRFrench journalist
- Marlène Schiappab. 1982FRFrench politician and writer
- Marlène Nideckerb. 1986FRTaekwondo practitioner
- Marlène Morel-Petitgirardb. 1988FRFrench racing cyclist
- Lynda Marlene Gauzeb. 1990CIIvorian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #8,270 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8 | #8,271 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Marlène?
- In the etymology graph, Marla, Marlena and Marleen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Marlène?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁlɛn/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Marlène a male or female name?
- Marlène is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Marlène have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 267 thousand people named Marlène, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marlene.
- How common is the name Marlène?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 267,461 people named Marlène in 2022, about 1 in 792 residents.
- How common is Marlène compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Marlène is the 130th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marlène?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marl%C3%A8neThe 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, “Marlène” — the 130th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.