Marleen

Where Marleen comes from

The dictionaries list Marleen as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Marlene — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1926
    First appearance
    #4,306 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #740
    85 babies named Marleen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1948
    Marleen Gorris born
    Dutch writer and director
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,766.
  5. 1979
    Marleen Veldhuis born
    Dutch swimmer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Marlene.
Namesakes
  • Marleen Veldhuis · Dutch swimmer, born 1979
  • Marleen Gorris · Dutch writer and director, born 1948
  • Marleen van Iersel · Dutch volleyball player, born 1988
  • Marleen Jochems · Dutch field hockey player, born 2000
  • Marleen Renders · Belgian distance runner, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.