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Marylin

girl name
Origin
Modern American
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

a spelling variant of Marilyn, an early 20th-century blend of Mary and the suffix -lyn

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Popularity, 1890–2024

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Marylin has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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Popularity in Brazil

233 people · the #22,800 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 37

1970s1980s1990s2000s

Among people named Marylin living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

Names that fit alongside Marylin

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