English

Proper noun

Marilyn

1. A female given name.
   • 1993 Nuruddin Farah: Gifts. Arcade Publishing 1999. ISBN 1559704845 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.

Etymology 2

Named after Marilyn Monroe, as a pun on Munro ‎(“any Scottish mountain taller than 3,000 feet”).

Noun

Marilyn ‎(plural Marilyns)

1. (Britain) A mountain or hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres