Marlen

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Marlen: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Marlen: Recorded since 1963, it reached #193 in 1990, and it stood at #5,927 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
48times a registrar ranked it
63years from first to last
#193highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2014–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#5691
2025	#5927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 46 of the 60 years from 1963 to 2022.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1963–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1963
First recorded at #472 among girls in Norway in 1963 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1963–2022
Highest recorded position: #193 among girls in Norway, in 1990 (recorded 1963–2022).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Marlen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 46 years beginning in 1963, and has registered 473 births with the name.

Marlen across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Marlen's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#472 (1963)	#193 (1990)	#454 (2022)	46 of 60	473 (1963–2022)	31 (1990)
England and Wales · Girls	#5691 (2014)	#5691 (2014)	#5927 (2025)	2 of 12	6 (2014–2025)	3 (2014)

Marlen by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Marlen in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	16	3 of 10	5
1970s	49	8 of 10	6
1980s	142	10 of 10	14
1990sbusiest	175	10 of 10	18
2000s	66	10 of 10	7
2010s	20	4 of 10	5
2020s	5	1 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Marlen appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1963 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #193 in Norway in 1990.

Marlen's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#454	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#564	4	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#531	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#532	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#608	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#604	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#484	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#450	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#454	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#506	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#631	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#315	13	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#353	11	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#408	9	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#520	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#272	16	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#260	18	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#263	18	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#263	19	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#257	20	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#224	27	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#193	31	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#271	19	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#287	18	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#212	28	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#321	15	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#294	16	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#443	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#366	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#315	14	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#647	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#461	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#440	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#563	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#430	8	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#516	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#533	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#545	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#509	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#467	6	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#472	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Marlen is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Marlen, between 1963 and 2025, in 48 of those 63 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1963–2022	46	#193 in 1990
England and Wales	2014–2025	2	#5691 in 2014

Its high point came 24 years earlier in Norway (1990) than in England and Wales (2014).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2016; it appears again in 2022.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1963 and 2025, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #193, first reached in 1990.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in Norway in 1990.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Marlee · #353, 26y
Marleigh · #638, 20y
Marlena · #550, 27y
Marlene · #91, 54y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Malvin · #193, 47y
Kerstin · #198, 43y
Dora · #202, 44y
Brona · #203, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Garvan · #193, 22y
Milena · #193, 55y
Finnian · #192, 44y
Frederik · #192, 55y

Marlen was ranked #193 in Norway · Girls in 1990. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Isabelle#189
Karine#190
Louise#191
Fatima#192
Mary#194
Signe#195
Ana#196
Gro#197

Marlen and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marlen without appearing here.

Marlen moved ahead of

Wenche
In 1998 they stood at #520 and #486 in Norway · Girls; by 1999 that had become #353 and #638.
Jacqueline
In 1984 they stood at #443 and #438 in Norway · Girls; by 1985 that had become #294 and #564.
Barbara
In 1989 they stood at #271 and #258 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #193 and #434.
Susan
In 1998 they stood at #520 and #481 in Norway · Girls; by 1999 that had become #353 and #587.

Moved ahead of Marlen

Amelia
In 2001 they stood at #315 and #368 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #631 and #265.
Olivia
In 1996 they stood at #272 and #316 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #520 and #219.
Jessica
In 1996 they stood at #272 and #378 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #520 and #232.
Tara
In 1996 they stood at #272 and #366 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #520 and #237.

Moved the opposite way to Marlen

Leah
Between 1982 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Marlen went from #315 to #454 while Leah went from #546 to #18.
Matilda
Between 1986 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Marlen went from #321 to #454 while Matilda went from #526 to #200.
Zoe
Between 1987 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Marlen went from #212 to #454 while Zoe went from #637 to #289.
Iben
Between 1988 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Marlen went from #287 to #454 while Iben went from #668 to #7.

What is known about Marlen

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1963–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1963 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #193 in Norway in 1990. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Marlen

Marlen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marlen across 2 official records

Marlen by decade in Norway · Girls

Marlen appears in

Popularity data

Where Marlen is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Marlen

Marlen and the names beside it

Marlen moved ahead of

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What is known about Marlen

Marlen at a glance

Marlen across 2 official records

Marlen by decade in Norway · Girls

Marlen appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Marlen

Marlen and the names beside it

Marlen moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Marlen

Moved the opposite way to Marlen