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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Marlen

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#3,626

down −71 places

2025 births

42

down −2 births

All-time births

5,512

1% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2007
263 births
Best rank
#918
in 2003
First recorded
1932
#4,232 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1999
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
83 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2007263#1,008Peak
  2. 2003259#918
  3. 2005230#1,041
  4. 2006224#1,119
  5. 2004216#1,071

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #918 in 2003 · peak births 263 in 2007

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 14% boys■ 86% girls

926 boys · 5,512 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Marlen has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.