Marlen
About 6,438 American babies have been named Marlen since 1915, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 3,577th. About 5,900 Marlens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marlen boys named Marlen
Girls and boys called Marlen
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Marlen crossed from boys to girls in 1973, and has stayed there for 53 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, and in 2025 it was 88%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 60 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,438
- Estimated living today
- 5,900
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,003rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,577th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 5,512 / 926
How old the living Marlens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,438 babies given the name since 1915, about 5,900 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 190 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Marlens
- Marlen Haushofer (1920–1970)Austrian writer
- Marlen Khutsiev (1925–2019)Soviet film director, screenwriter
- Marlen Reusser (born 1991)Swiss cyclist
- Marlen Esparza (born 1989)American boxer
People named Marlen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marlen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlen is most concentrated in Texas (4.1×), California (4.0×), Arizona (2.4×), Nevada (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Marlen peaked:
Marlen elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Marlen | 473 | 192nd |
| Switzerland girls | Marlen | 174 | 604th |
| France girls | Marlen | 10 | 4,005th |
| England and Wales girls | Marlen | 6 | 5,927th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marlen: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Marlen | 170 | 0.014% | 433rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Marlen | 3 | 0.001% | 745th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Marlen | 1 | 0.002% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marlen is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Marlen among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Marlen +1 spelling | 49 | 166 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marlen lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 675 women called Marlen were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturias | Marlen | 69 | 0.130 | 644 |
| León | Marlen | 24 | 0.104 | 753 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Marlen | 42 | 0.076 | 1,156 |
| Palmas, Las | Marlen | 38 | 0.064 | 1,420 |
| Navarra | Marlen | 15 | 0.043 | 1,404 |
| Rioja, La | Marlen | 7 | 0.042 | 1,379 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marlen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.