Marilyn (given name)
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Marilyn is a feminine given name.
Origin and meaning
Marilyn is a blend of the English given names Mary and Lynn.[1] It began to be used in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Variants of the name includes: Maralyn, Marilynn, Marlyn, Marylyn, Marrilyn, Merilyn, Merrelyn and Merrilyn.[2]
Notable bearers of the name Marilyn
Notable people with the name include:
- Marilyn (singer) (born 1962), British entertainer
- Marilyn Agliotti (born 1979), Dutch-South African field hockey player
- Marilyn Bergman (born 1929), American composer, songwriter and author
- Marilyn Borden (1932–2009), American singer and actress
- Marilyn Brick, Canadian politician
- Marilyn Chambers (1952–2009), American pornographic actress
- Marilyn Cole (born 1949), Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month
- Marilyn French (1929–2009), American author
- Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, critic and reviewer
- Marilyn Hall (c. 1927-2017), Canadian-born American producer and philanthropist
- Marilyn Horne (born 1934), American opera singer
- Marilyn Maxwell (1921–1972), American actress
- Marilyn McCoo (born 1943), American singer and actress
- Marilyn Milian (born 1961), judge on the television show The People's Court
- Marilyn Miller (1898–1936), Broadway performer
- Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), American actress
- Marilyn Quayle (born 1949), American lawyer, author and Second Lady of the United States
- Marilyn Ramenofsky (born 1946), American freestyle swimmer
- Marilyn Scott (born 1949), American singer
- Marilyn Singer (born 1948), American author of children's books
- Marilyn vos Savant (born 1946), American columnist and author
- Marilyn Waltz (1931-2006), Playboy magazine's February 1954, April 1954, April 1955 Playmate of the Month
- Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford (born 1947), American singer
- Marilyn Ziering, an American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California
- Marilynn Webb (born 1937), New Zealand artist
The American musician and artist Brian Hugh Warner goes by the stage name Marilyn Manson. His stage name was formed by juxtaposing the names of two opposing American pop cultural icons, actress Marilyn Monroe and cult leader Charles Manson; as an actual given name, Marilyn is not used as a male name.
Merrelyn
A variation of Marylin is Merrelyn, sometimes spelled as Merrilyn. Notable people with the name include:
- Merrelyn Emery, Australian psychologist, co-refiner with Fred Emery of the Search Conference participative planning process
- Merrilyn Gann (born 1963), Canadian actress
- Merrilyn Goos, Australian mathematician
- Merrilyn (Merri) Rose (born 1955), Australian politician
Characters
- Marilyn Whirlwind, a character in the Northern Exposure TV series
- Marilyn (Mario character), a character in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door