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Marleni

Gender
Girl
Say it
mar-LEH-nee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#6,545 for girls

Marleni is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).

What does Marleni mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Marleny; Latin American form of Marlene, a German blend of Maria and Magdalena

Marlene became famous worldwide through the German film star Marlene Dietrich.

Meaning borrowed from Marleny.

Is Marleni a girl's or a boy's name?

Marleni is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Marleni in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,545among girls
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 95,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Marleni, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.

Half of all the girls named Marleni in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1981Busiest: 36 in 20032025
Marleni in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#6,545
20247#12,156
20235#15,188
202218#6,459
202113#8,019
202014#7,554
201912#8,592
20180–
201711#9,337
201611#9,408
201510#10,143
201410#10,124
20136#14,577
201216#7,452
201119#6,561
201018#6,901
200921#6,314
200835#4,359
200736#4,212
200635#4,164
200530#4,483
200430#4,488
200336#3,801
200230#4,175
200124#4,829
200016#6,481
199913#7,233
199816#6,068
199728#3,894
199616#5,766
199520#4,841
199418#5,244
199324#4,252
199213#6,645
199118#5,175
199015#5,829
198916#5,280
19888#8,386
19876#9,820
19866#9,540
19850–
19840–
19837#8,045
19820–
19815#10,409

Names like Marleni

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Marleni

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Marleni: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/marleni, updated 20 October 2026.