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Marlaine

Marlaine is a feminine given name from German. It is used in French.

Original GermanMarlene

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Marlaine comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From German Marlene.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1936. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Marlaine through the years

Babies since 1880
361
0 boys · 361 girls
Most popular year
1949
27 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0510152019401960198020002025Highest share 19490.0
Marlaine in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1936–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1984. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1949. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 437 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Marlaine’s family of names

In French usage, Marlaine has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Marlene. In French usage, Marlaine has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Marlena. In French usage, Marlaine has a conventional equivalent in the Dutch form Marleen.

Walk Marlaine’s family in the name graph

MarlaineMarleneMarlena

The ring: across languages.

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Around the world

Marlaine has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.

German

Germanwhere Marlaine comes from · 2 names

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Lana is used as a given name and a surname. Lana is connected with Alana.

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Sibling ideas

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