Marleny
Marleny was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,624 among girls’ names; 1,479 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Marleny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marleny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marleny?
#4,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Marleny rose from #6,380 in 2015 to #4,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 18.7 per million.
63 babies in 2022, the peak
Marleny peaked in 2022, when 63 girls were given it, #2,744 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,624 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,177 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,362 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,744 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,533 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,959 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,992 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,542 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,746 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,055 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,380 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,694 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,385 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,832 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,336 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,006 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,598 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,198 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,415 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,229 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,108 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,722 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,699 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,630 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,520 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,245 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,474 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,789 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,863 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,000 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,547 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,731 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,478 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,164 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,998 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,015 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,188 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,584 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,478 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,005 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,293 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,408 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,515 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,923 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,461 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,447 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,697 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,657 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marleny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marleny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marleny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marleny, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,479 Americans ever recorded as Marleny. The median Marleny alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,878 people named Marleny (3,865 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 323 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 631 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 487 |
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).
Where are babies named Marleny born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,987 | 1.5× |
Where Marleny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marleny is most over-represented in California: since 1977 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marleny with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 150,673 babies since 1880, Marleny is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 294 babies (10%), the third 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 Marleny
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 Marleny and names like it
- Compare Marleny and MarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMarleny peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marleny since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Marleny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marleny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.