Marena
Marena was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,739 among girls’ names; 1,292 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Marena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 24 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marena is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marena?
#7,739 among girls’ names, 2025
Marena rose from #13,951 in 2015 to #7,739 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 8.7 per million.
75 babies in 1994, the peak
Marena peaked in 1994, when 75 girls were given it, #1,894 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,739 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,259 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,379 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,143 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,309 | 7.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,202 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,987 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,826 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,951 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,612 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,501 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,161 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,561 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,774 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,801 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,718 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,487 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,789 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,721 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,219 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,140 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,520 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,944 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,472 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,822 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,959 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,538 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,402 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,894 | 42.0 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,796 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,177 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,591 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,479 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,777 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,930 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,476 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,916 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,552 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,109 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,746 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,237 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,451 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,425 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,732 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,206 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,790 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,974 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,633 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,217 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,981 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,761 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,301 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,999 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,770 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,105 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,212 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,480 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,758 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,135 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,643 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,345 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,949 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,039 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,770 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,261 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,176 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,513 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,860 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,765 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,200 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,803 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,785 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,718 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,410 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,346 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,716 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,099 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,976 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,675 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,147 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,979 | 5.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,736 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,164 | 4.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,427 | 4.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,621 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,884 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,070 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marena, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,292 Americans ever recorded as Marena. The median Marena alive today is 31 years old; half are between 24 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,316 people named Marena (1,316 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 121 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 403 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 99 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 95,445 babies since 1880, Marena is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 1,729 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marena and names like it
- Compare Marena and MarianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarena peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marena since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Marena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.