Marlon
Only around 260 Poles carry it, every one of them a man. Most people here have never met a Marlon. A Latin name meaning "little hawk".
Marlon Pronunciation
Marlon is pronounced MAHR-lon (/ˈmarlɔn/).
What Marlon means
Where Marlon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marlon comes down from Latin, and the short meaning attached to it is "little hawk." The ending, that small "-on," reads like a diminutive, and a diminutive turns something large into something young. So the hawk becomes a small hawk.
In English the name grew famous through one man. Marlon Brando, born in 1924, carried it far beyond the places where Latin was ever spoken. After him the name belonged less to grammar and more to a face on screen. Its cultural home settled firmly in English.
A Polish child named Marlon has no diminutive forms and no ready nickname to shorten on the class register at school. There are no variants, no cross-gender version to lean on. The name stands alone. What it offers in their place is its meaning: little hawk in English, mały wojownik in Polish.
How many people are named Marlon
1 in 80857 men in Poland is named Marlon. 264 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1882 among male names.
Marlon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Marlon as a middle name
Marlon is a first name for 264 men in Poland and a middle name for another 26, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1683rd, between Lamine (26) and Matti (26).
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#1681 Karl-Heinz26
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#1682 Lamine26
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#1683 Marlon26
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#1684 Matti26
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#1685 Metin26