Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 Marilene
/mah · ree · LEH · neh/
Meaning
“Unknown”
Compound of Maria and the suffix -lene, popular in Brazil during the mid-20th century wave of elaborated Maria variants.
Nicknames
mari · lene
Vibe
warmelegant
How it ages.
Dated to the 1950s-70s in Brazil; feels grandmother-generation now.
The cultural moment.
High usage in Brazil from the 1950s through 1970s, rare among newborns today.