Girl · Latin
Marina
Say it: mah-REE-nah
Meaning
From the Roman name Marinus, probably a derivative of the family name Marius; it was early associated with Latin marinus 'of the sea', and that is how it is usually understood.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
An Orthodox saint's name, very popular in the Soviet era.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 37,210 babies given this name since 1886
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 1,400 girls
- 394 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Early ChristianLatinGreekItalianSpanishRussianUkrainianSerbianCroatianBulgarianPolish
The family of the name
Other spellings: Марина
| French | Marine |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Marina |
| Italian | Marina |
| Portuguese | Marina |
| German | Marina |
| Polish | Maryna |
| Russian | Marina |
| Greek | Marina |
Famous bearers
- Marina the Monk, early saint
- Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
- Marina Mniszech, Tsaritsa of Russia
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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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.