Mary-Lynn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mary-Lynn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 85K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 105K
- CNChina≈1 in 97K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marylynn in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mary-Lynn 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 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Marylynn | 2 |
| US United States | 3,924 | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Marylynn | 253 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 1 | Marylynn | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Marylynn | 42 |
| EG Egypt | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Marylynn | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Mary-Lynn | 7 |
| IE Ireland | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Marylynn | 5 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
- Mary-Lynn Neilb. 1997CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer and songwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1996 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,333 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Mary-Lynn a male or female name?
- Mary-Lynn 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 Mary-Lynn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Mary-Lynn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marylynn.
- Where is Mary-Lynn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mary-Lynn is densest in the United States — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mary-Lynn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,924 people named Mary-Lynn in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mary-Lynn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mary-lynnThe 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, “Mary-Lynn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.