Marlon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name apparently first brought to public attention by the American actor Marlon Brando (b
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marlon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 37th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 326(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 440
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 553
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 361 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 326 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Name apparently first brought to public attention by the American actor Marlon Brando (b. 1924). The name was borne also by his father. It is of uncertain origin, possibly derived from Mare with the addition of the French diminutive suffix -Jon (originally a combination of two separate suffixes, -el and -on). The actor’s family is partly of French extraction.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marlon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #138 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 553 | — | Marlon | 124 |
| BR Brazil | #452 | 77,360 | 1 in 2.7K | 77K | Marlon | 172 |
| US United States | — | 34,097 | 1 in 9.8K | 34K | Marlon | 361 |
| CO Colombia | #240 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 23 | Marlon | 138 |
| EC Ecuador | #231 | 23,864 | 1 in 708 | 24K | Marlon | 61 |
| HN Honduras | #42 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 440 | — | Marlon | 56 |
| NI Nicaragua | #37 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 326 | — | Marlon | 45 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,241 | 1 in 605 | 1.2K | — | — |
| CW Curaçao | — | 277 | 1 in 546 | 277 | — | 2 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023). 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)
Marlon is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Marlon är ett namn av ovisst ursprung. Det blev bekant genom den amerikanske filmstjärnan Marlon Brando (1924–2004), vars far bar samma förnamn. Möjligen är det en bildning till → Mark med den franska diminutivändelsen -lon.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ['ma:lan]: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter angloamerikani- scher männl. Vom., dem vielleicht eine altfranzös. Koseform von Marc (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Murvine, Murvon, Murvyn, Murvyne, Halcón
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Marlon Brandob. 1924USAmerican actor (1924–2004)
- Marlon Jacksonb. 1957USAmerican singer and member of The Jackson 5
- Jamie Foxxb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, comedian, and singer (born 1967)
- Marlon Jamesb. 1970JMJamaican novelist
- Marlon Wayansb. 1972USAmerican actor, screenwriter, and film producer
- Marlon Harewoodb. 1979GBBritish footballer (born 1979)
- Marlon Roudetteb. 1983GBEnglish singer and songwriter
- Mário Brandão da Silveirab. 1987BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Chet Hanksb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and musician
- Marlonb. 1995BRBrazilian footballer (born September 1995)
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 101 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 77K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 77K | #399 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 73K | #599 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34K | #1,157 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 24K | #100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.2K | #34 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 452 | #399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 322 | #1,157 |
| CW Curaçao | CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) | 2023 | 277 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 195 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 73 | — |
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
- Where does the name Marlon come from?
- Name apparently first brought to public attention by the American actor Marlon Brando (b. 1924). The name was borne also by his father. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Marlon a male or female name?
- Marlon is a male 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 Marlon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 198 thousand people named Marlon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marlon.
- What does the name Marlon mean?
- Recorded meaning: Name apparently first brought to public attention by the American actor Marlon Brando (b.
- How common is the name Marlon?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 77,360 people named Marlon in 2022, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Marlon compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Marlon is the 138th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marlonThe 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, “Marlon” — the 138th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.