Meanings
Marilyn1
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
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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, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71
Marilyn2
Origin
Marilyn · noun
Named after Marilyn Monroe, as a pun on Munro (“any Scottish mountain taller than 3,000 feet”).
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Marilyn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Marilyn
“Marilyn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Marilyn. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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