Marilena
Marilena was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,741 among girls’ names; 681 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marilena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marilena?
#7,741 among girls’ names, 2025
Marilena rose from #8,760 in 2015 to #7,741 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 8.7 per million.
21 babies in 2021, the peak
Marilena peaked in 2021, when 21 girls were given it, #5,870 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,741 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,825 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,787 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,898 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,870 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,106 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,002 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,011 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,989 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,254 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,760 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,335 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,404 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,992 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,278 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,046 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,977 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,622 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,344 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,544 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,041 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,679 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,149 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,745 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,578 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,123 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,373 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,256 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,112 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,985 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,485 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,305 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,478 | 7.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,923 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,405 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,217 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,757 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,157 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,324 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,577 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,752 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,810 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,862 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,840 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,993 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,808 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,734 | 7.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,483 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,367 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,429 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,439 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,948 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,136 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,303 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,006 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,260 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,276 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,150 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,409 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,318 | 3.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,725 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marilena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marilena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marilena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marilena, and how old are they?
An estimated 662 Americans named Marilena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 11 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,068 people named Marilena (1,063 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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.
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 151,828 babies since 1880, Marilena is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 334 babies (4.2%), the sixth 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 Marilena
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.
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