Marlee
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Old English
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marlee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 4.3Kas Melo(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 6.1Kas Mal
- NGNigeria≈1 in 20Kas Mala
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 Marlee 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)
- #849 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- 1 in 139 (inferred from the name graph)
1,522,803 named Melo
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil, as Melo
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mala in BR Brazil, NP Nepal, NG Nigeria, Mola in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay and Mali in IN India.
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)
A surname from Old English.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marlee 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 | — | 1,522,803as Melo | 1 in 139 | 1.5M | Mala | 31 |
| IN India | #141 | 218,731as Mal | 1 in 6.1K | 219K | Mali | 202 |
| NP Nepal | — | 19,605as Mali | 1 in 1.5K | 20K | Mala | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10,683as Melo | 1 in 4.3K | 11K | Mola | 39 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Mala | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 6,842as Melo | 1 in 495 | 6.8K | Mola | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 6,765as Malá | 1 in 1.6K | 6.8K | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,471as Melo | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | — | 12 |
1,522,803 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling melo. 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; INEC — civil registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marlee is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Aboriginal; an elder tree. See Marlene.
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In German, ['modi:]: weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marlee Matlinb. 1965USAmerican actress (born 1965)
- Marlee Scottb. 1986CACanadian singer
- Marlee Robertsb. 1992USAmerican actress
- Nesta Cooperb. 1993CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Marlee Frayb. 2000JMJamaican-American soccer player
- Marlee Van Der Merweactress
- Mary Tainot in their usual nameUS nutrition scholar
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2019 | 2 | #5,693 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Is Marlee a male or female name?
- Marlee 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.
- What does the name Marlee mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Old English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Marlee have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Melo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marlee most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Marlee itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Brazil's: the national register counts about 1 in 139 people named Melo.
- How common is the name Marlee?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,522,803 people named Melo, about 1 in 139 residents.
- How common is Marlee compared with other names?
- In India, Marlee is the 141st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Marlee?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Marlee?
- In the etymology graph, Marly and Marleigh are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Marlee?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marleeThe 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, “Marlee” — the 141st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.