Marin

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Boy · Latin, through Venetian

Marin

Say it: mah-REEN

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Meaning

The Venetian form of Marino, from Latin Marinus 'of the sea'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 2000s

In the United States

6,467 babies given this name since 1913
At its height in 2007, about 1 in 5,900 girls
119 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Italian Croatian French

The family of the name

Italian	Marino

Famous bearers

Marin Sanudo, Venetian diarist

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Where this comes from

Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.