Marilyn
English
Etymology 1
A twentieth-century blend of Mary and Lynn.
Proper noun
Marilyn
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
- 1993 Nuruddin Farah: Gifts. Arcade Publishing 1999. →ISBN page 71:
- Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name - Marilyn. You won't believe it, but she was named for me, and my own is Maryam. She tells me that Marilyn is the name of a famous actress who's now dead. You know the young these days, bringing mysteries and foreign ways into our lives.
- 1993 Nuruddin Farah: Gifts. Arcade Publishing 1999. →ISBN page 71:
Etymology 2
Named after Marilyn Monroe, as a pun on Munro (“any Scottish mountain taller than 3,000 feet”).
Noun
Marilyn (plural Marilyns)
Cebuano
Etymology
Proper noun
Marilyn
- a female given name
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English Marilyn.
Proper noun
Marilyn
- a female given name from English
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