Marlena
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 470 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,321since 1925
Marlena over time
Rank among girls' names. Marlena has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 |
| 2023 | #3,047 | 54 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,428 | 73 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 |
| 2016 | #2,308 | 82 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 |
| 2013 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2012 | #2,265 | 83 |
| 2011 | #2,395 | 77 |
| 2010 | #2,538 | 72 |
| 2009 | #2,041 | 100 |
| 2008 | #1,949 | 108 |
| 2007 | #2,085 | 97 |
| 2006 | #1,809 | 113 |
| 2005 | #1,639 | 122 |
| 2004 | #1,962 | 95 |
| 2003 | #1,802 | 104 |
| 2002 | #1,376 | 140 |
| 2001 | #1,368 | 139 |
| 2000 | #1,255 | 156 |
| 1999 | #1,108 | 179 |
| 1998 | #941 | 219 |
| 1997 | #971 | 201 |
| 1996 | #926 | 211 |
| 1995 | #998 | 188 |
| 1994 | #841 | 238 |
| 1993 | #805 | 249 |
| 1992 | #807 | 249 |
| 1991 | #843 | 238 |
| 1990 | #966 | 194 |
| 1989 | #887 | 207 |
| 1988 | #880 | 200 |
| 1987 | #810 | 216 |
| 1986 | #710 | 252 |
| 1985 | #749 | 231 |
| 1984 | #721 | 229 |
| 1983 | #697 | 244 |
| 1982 | #620 | 290 |
| 1981 | #679 | 255 |
| 1980 | #609 | 301 |
| 1979 | #511 | 387 |
| 1978 | #430 | 470 |
| 1977 | #464 | 423 |
| 1976 | #826 | 168 |
| 1975 | #937 | 135 |
| 1974 | #979 | 125 |
| 1973 | #1,033 | 113 |
| 1972 | #1,103 | 102 |
| 1971 | #1,047 | 115 |
| 1970 | #989 | 126 |
| 1969 | #890 | 140 |
| 1968 | #958 | 116 |
| 1967 | #980 | 108 |
| 1966 | #1,072 | 96 |
| 1965 | #1,060 | 98 |
| 1964 | #1,047 | 107 |
| 1963 | #1,135 | 93 |
| 1962 | #1,184 | 86 |
| 1961 | #1,232 | 80 |
| 1960 | #1,301 | 71 |
| 1959 | #1,383 | 60 |
| 1958 | #1,409 | 57 |
| 1957 | #1,322 | 64 |
| 1956 | #1,298 | 64 |
| 1955 | #1,099 | 83 |
| 1954 | #945 | 104 |
| 1953 | #1,018 | 89 |
| 1952 | #983 | 92 |
| 1951 | #1,292 | 52 |
| 1950 | #1,123 | 67 |
| 1949 | #1,121 | 65 |
| 1948 | #1,157 | 60 |
| 1947 | #1,413 | 43 |
| 1946 | #1,481 | 35 |
| 1945 | #1,332 | 36 |
| 1944 | #1,315 | 37 |
| 1943 | #1,467 | 32 |
| 1942 | #1,206 | 43 |
| 1941 | #1,696 | 22 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1939 | #1,947 | 17 |
| 1938 | #1,343 | 30 |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 |
| 1935 | #2,439 | 12 |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 |
| 1932 | #2,644 | 11 |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marlena! It came in at #4,973, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1930, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Marlena is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#956 · 1 in 6,184
- Pennsylvania#1,015 · 1 in 7,837
- New York#1,195 · 1 in 8,644
- California#1,230 · 1 in 9,601
- Illinois#1,441 · 1 in 11,193
Best ever in a state: #138 in West Virginia, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #956 | 6 | 1 in 6,184 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,015 | 7 | 1 in 7,837 |
| New York | #1,195 | 11 | 1 in 8,644 |
| California | #1,230 | 24 | 1 in 9,601 |
| Illinois | #1,441 | 6 | 1 in 11,193 |
| Florida | #1,528 | 7 | 1 in 12,244 |
| Texas | #2,925 | 5 | 1 in 32,121 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Marlena
- 559 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #2,957)
- 541 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #2,957)
- 486 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #2,957)
- Biggest jump: 362 spots in 1977 (#826 → #464)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1999 (#941 → #1,108)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1978 at #430 (470 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1974–1998
- Highest: 1 in 3,259 girls born in 1978 were named Marlena (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.4% of all girls named Marlena (2,425) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,973 (1925) | #4,973 |
| 1930s | 134 | #1,343 (1938) | #2,258 |
| 1940s | 385 | #1,121 (1949) | #1,461 |
| 1950s | 732 | #945 (1954) | #1,187 |
| 1960s | 995 | #890 (1969) | #1,086 |
| 1970s | 2,164 | #430 (1978) | #832 |
| 1980s | 2,425 | #609 (1980) | #736 |
| 1990s | 2,166 | #805 (1993) | #921 |
| 2000s | 1,174 | #1,255 (2000) | #1,729 |
| 2010s | 792 | #1,968 (2013) | #2,355 |
| 2020s | 349 | #2,416 (2020) | #2,916 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marlena in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 15,146 of them was named Marlena, which outranked 91.5% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,631Keziah123
- #1,631Lili123
- #1,631Shay123
- #1,639Marlena122
- #1,639Abriana122
- #1,639Baylie122
- #1,639Kami122
- #1,645Ashlin121
- #1,645Breanne121
- #1,645Brynna121
Tied with 5 names at #1,639; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.