girls:
11.2k births since 1925
#1485 (74th percentile)
overall:
11.2k births since 1925
#2481 (68th percentile)
The name Marlena is the #2,481 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,220 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 67.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,485 (74.0% percentile) for all time with 11,220 births since 1925.
Marlena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (first recorded for girls in 1925). Birth data for Marlena is available in 94 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Marlena reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 49.3% percentile (ranked #384) with 286 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 286 births per million (ranked 49.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marlena ranks #899 for girls (5.1% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 10.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marlena".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Marlena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.7% confident that Marlena is pronounced as mahr-LAY-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-lee-nuh, at 17.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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