Given name

Marlenne

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

Original GermanMarlene

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Marlenne 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 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Marlenne through the years

Babies since 1880
462
0 boys · 462 girls
Most popular year
2006
33 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0510152020002025Highest share 20060.0
Marlenne in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1985–2025, 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 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 563 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.

Marlenne’s family of names

In French usage, Marlenne has a conventional equivalent in the English form Marlene. In French usage, Marlenne has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Marlena. In French usage, Marlenne has a conventional equivalent in the German form Marleen.

Walk Marlenne’s family in the name graph

MarlenneMarleneMarlena

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

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

German

Germanwhere Marlenne 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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