Marlene

girls:

130.3k births since 1904

#307 (95th percentile)

boys:

359 births since 1931

#4227 (8th percentile)

overall:

130.6k births since 1904

#572 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marlene".

1904 2023 19042023

Key Statistics

Total Births
130,257
Peak Births
5,332
Peak Year
1935
First Recorded
1904
Peak Percentile
93.4%
Current Percentile
16.9%
Peak Rank
#39
Current Rank
#787
Female statistics
Total Births
359
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
1936
First Recorded
1931
Peak Percentile
3.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#502
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Marlene

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Marlene. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 52.0% confident that Marlene is pronounced as MAHR-leen. The next most likely pronunciation is mahr-LEEN, at 36.0% confidence.

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mahr-LEEN (2 syllables)
36.0% confidence
M AA0 R L IY1 N
MAHR-LEEN (2 syllables)
Verified
12.0% confidence
M AA1 R L IY1 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Marlene. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Marlene, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAHR-lain (2 syllables)
2 names 2.2k births
M AA1 R L AY0 N

Names with this pronunciation:

MA-ruh-leen (3 syllables)
4 names 1.5k births
M AE1 R AH0 L IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R L IY0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.