Marilena
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.
Marilena by the numbers
Marilena was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 19 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Marilena
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Marilena. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Marlenalake boundary; a form of Marlene60 in the US (2017)
- Marialenaof mary and helen; blend of two names5 in the US (2017)
- Marielena17 in the US (2017)
- Marianaof the sea; feminine form of Marius1,084 in the US (2017)
- Marilynbeloved by god; a form of Mary580 in the US (2017)
- Marinaof the sea68 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Marilena
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