Feminine dossier · first seen 1925

Marlena

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Marlena
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 90.6% from peak

Peak era

1978

Peak rank proxy

470

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1925Peak 19782024

Peak year

1978

Decline from peak

90.6%

2024

All-time

11,264

Marlena once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1978, when 470 girls were named Marlena.

In 2024, only 44 girls were given the name.

Down 90.6% from its peak.

All told, about 11,264 Americans have been named Marlena and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1925.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 90.6% from peak

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