Marilena — #7642 US girls' name
667 babies named Marilena in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 57% of names given to girls today.
21% of everyone ever named Marilena was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Marilena in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marilena
The Social Security Administration has registered 667 babies named Marilena between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marilena currently holds the #7642 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marilena performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Marilena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 37 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marilena in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marilena in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 667 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Marilena at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marilena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1948
- Peak year (2021)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 77 years of records
Currently ranks #7642 among girls.
667 total births across 77 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 21 births in a single year.
Marilena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 140 births that decade — 21% of Marilena's all-time total
Marilena decade highlights
- Peak decade 140 births
- Runner-up 124 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Marilena's strongest decade
140 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Marilena by state
Where Marilena concentrates geographically — total births since 1948
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 37 | 5.5% |
| #2 | California | | 15 | 2.2% |
| #3 | Texas | | 6 | 0.9% |
37 of 667 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 5.5% of nationwide
- California 2.2% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 5.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1948–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.