Marléen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marléen is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Contraction of Maria Magdalena.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 810(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6K
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 811 (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, 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 Marleen in US United States, NL Netherlands, BE Belgium 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)Contraction of Maria Magdalena.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marléen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #181 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 811 | 6 | Marleen | 104 |
| NL Netherlands | #189 | 10,873 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Marleen | 110 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Marleen | 127 |
| US United States | — | 3,875 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Marleen | 308 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Marleen | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 347 | Marleen | 23 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 Marléen mean, and where does it come from?
- Contraction of Maria Magdalena. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Marléen a male or female name?
- Marléen 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Marléen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Marléen in Belgium, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marleen. After it come Netherlands, Germany, United States and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Marléen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10,873 people named Marléen, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Marléen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Marléen is the 181st most common given name of 59,589 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marléen?
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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%A9enThe 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, “Marléen” — the 181st most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.