Marylin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Amata
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/marjlin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Marylin is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 18K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 19Kfew records
- CRCosta Rica1 in 20K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
4,053 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Amata
Cited for this meaning 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marylin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,053 | 1 in 82K | 4K | Marylin | 280 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Marylin | 28 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Marylin | 24 |
| FR France | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1.5K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 69K | listed | Marylin | 72 |
| VE Venezuela | 749 | 1 in 38K | 749 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Marylin | 18 |
| CR Costa Rica | 257 | 1 in 20K | 257 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 186 | 1 in 18K | 186 | — | — |
4,053 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Marylin Hafnerb. 1925USillustrator (1925-2008)
- Marilyn S. Kiteb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican justice; Chief Justice of Wyoming
- Karen Evansb. 1949GBnot in their usual nameBritish pedagogue (1949-)
- Marylin Simonsb. 1959SRSurinamese writer
- Marylin Frasconeb. 1975FRFrench woman classical pianist
- Marylin Plab. 1984FRFrench pair skater
- Marylin Maesob. 1988FRFrench philosopher
- Marilyn Limab. 1995FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Marylin Niederhauserb. 1995CHSwiss race car driver
- Marylin LeméeFRcyclist
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)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4K | #4,545 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2000 | 1.5K | #2,106 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 749 | #1,985 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 257 | #1,269 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 186 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 179 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #4,545 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2009 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1957 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Marylin mean, and where does it come from?
- Amata Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- How do you pronounce Marylin?
- In Spanish /marjlin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Marylin a male or female name?
- Marylin is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2000), Venezuela (asosab) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.
- In which country does Marylin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Marylin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marylin.
- Where is Marylin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marylin is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marylin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,053 people named Marylin in 2020, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marylin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marylinThe 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, “Marylin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.