Marlėne
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marlėne is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 267,461 people, counted by IBGE in 2022. In Jamaica it is the 14th 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.
- BRBrazil1 in 792(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 953
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- 1 in 792 (inferred from the name graph)
267,461 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
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 US United States, SE Sweden, DK Denmark and 1 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.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marlėne 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 | — | 267,461 | 1 in 792 | 302K | — | 6 |
| US United States | #420 | 106,957 | 1 in 3.1K | 107K | Marlene | 497 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 12,660 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | — | 34 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,348 | 1 in 953 | 5.3K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | #395 | 4,455 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.5K | Marlene | 71 |
| DK Denmark | #254 | 3,292 | 1 in 1.8K | 3.3K | Marlene | 110 |
| JM Jamaica | #14 | — | — | — | Marlene | 26 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Marlėne 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 Marlėne a male or female name?
- Marlėne 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 Marlėne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 267 thousand people named Marlėne, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Marlėne most common?
- Marlėne is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 792 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marlėne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 267,461 people named Marlėne in 2022, about 1 in 792 residents.
- How common is Marlėne compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Marlėne is the 14th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marl%C4%97neThe 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, “Marlėne” — ranked 117th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.