Marlen — #3518 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Marlen

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,470 babies named Marlen between 1932 and 2024, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marlen currently holds the #3518 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 263 babies received it in a single year. Marlen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 920 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marlen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,171 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Marlen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,592 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Marlen in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marlen 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 5,470 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.