Marina Forename
92nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 4,049,298 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Russia
Highest density in:
Belarus
Marina Forename Definition:
A female name. St Marina of Alexandria was a virgin martyr venerated in the Greek Church and sometimes identified with St Margaret of Antioch. The etymology of the name is doubtful, though it is usually identified with the Latin adj marinus ‘of the sea'.
Read More About This ForenameMarina Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 100% | 1,882,214 | 1:77 | 17 |
| Brazil | 99% | 223,663 | 1:958 | 143 |
| Belarus | 99% | 133,999 | 1:71 | 17 |
| Italy | 100% | 133,750 | 1:457 | 98 |
| Mexico | 100% | 123,310 | 1:1,007 | 200 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 115,337 | 1:154 | 18 |
| Spain | 100% | 98,499 | 1:472 | 98 |
| Germany | 100% | 91,116 | 1:1,061 | 242 |
| Philippines | 99% | 78,396 | 1:1,352 | 273 |
| United States | 100% | 71,867 | 1:5,045 | 722 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 69,112 | 1:445 | 86 |
| Colombia | 100% | 66,328 | 1:720 | 119 |
| Argentina | 100% | 59,724 | 1:716 | 165 |
| France | 100% | 54,136 | 1:1,228 | 207 |
| Peru | 100% | 53,865 | 1:590 | 99 |
| Egypt | 99% | 40,340 | 1:2,278 | 331 |
| Greece | 100% | 33,493 | 1:326 | 61 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 31,120 | 1:341 | 68 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 29,373 | 1:285 | 47 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 25,936 | 1:6,148 | 826 |
| Croatia | 100% | 24,704 | 1:171 | 27 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 23,906 | 1:229 | 53 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 23,754 | 1:1,271 | 205 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 23,175 | 1:11,131 | 1,557 |
| Romania | 100% | 21,449 | 1:935 | 150 |
| Georgia | 100% | 20,287 | 1:184 | 20 |
| El Salvador | - | 19,619 | 1:323 | 51 |
| Afghanistan | 99% | 18,351 | 1:1,778 | 323 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 17,947 | 1:898 | 192 |
| Portugal | - | 17,507 | 1:595 | 101 |
| Cuba | - | 15,896 | 1:724 | 174 |
| Belgium | 100% | 15,478 | 1:742 | 175 |
| Moldova | 100% | 15,391 | 1:231 | 62 |
| Chile | 100% | 15,032 | 1:1,171 | 213 |
| England | 100% | 14,436 | 1:3,852 | 477 |
| Mozambique | - | 13,920 | 1:1,957 | 431 |
| Serbia | 100% | 12,695 | 1:563 | 129 |
| Canada | 100% | 11,887 | 1:2,787 | 525 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 11,836 | 1:881 | 137 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 11,790 | 1:2,004 | 476 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 11,388 | 1:1,484 | 315 |
| Honduras | 100% | 11,216 | 1:786 | 138 |
| Ecuador | - | 10,931 | 1:1,622 | 293 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 10,906 | 1:664 | 146 |
| Angola | 100% | 10,122 | 1:2,664 | 491 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 9,666 | 1:723 | 155 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 9,547 | 1:3,189 | 337 |
| South Africa | 100% | 9,181 | 1:5,940 | 1,114 |
| Congo | 100% | 8,970 | 1:558 | 86 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 8,827 | 1:677 | 92 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 8,573 | 1:8,612 | 925 |
| India | 100% | 8,055 | 1:150,823 | 16,723 |
| Poland | 100% | 7,539 | 1:5,044 | 311 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 6,842 | 1:880 | 176 |
| Estonia | 100% | 6,414 | 1:205 | 18 |
| Sudan | 100% | 6,346 | 1:5,958 | 914 |
| Latvia | 100% | 6,038 | 1:334 | 90 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 6,011 | 1:1,366 | 288 |
| Thailand | 100% | 5,903 | 1:11,870 | 1,862 |
| Transnistria | 99% | 5,540 | 1:86 | 23 |
| Sweden | 100% | 5,520 | 1:1,786 | 285 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 5,416 | 1:4,261 | 479 |
| Armenia | 100% | 4,858 | 1:601 | 132 |
| Austria | 100% | 4,692 | 1:1,815 | 264 |
| Gabon | 100% | 4,330 | 1:435 | 60 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 4,069 | 1:214 | 39 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 3,935 | 1:5,286 | 895 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 3,808 | 1:2,532 | 525 |
| Australia | - | 3,375 | 1:4,047 | 584 |
| Panama | 100% | 3,188 | 1:1,225 | 232 |
| Finland | 100% | 3,099 | 1:1,769 | 337 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 2,865 | 1:1,196 | 205 |
| Chad | 100% | 2,657 | 1:5,118 | 775 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 2,547 | 1:821 | 178 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 2,365 | 1:1,040 | 250 |
| Lithuania | 98% | 2,290 | 1:1,289 | 245 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 2,289 | 1:3,562 | 392 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 2,202 | 1:111 | 9 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2,198 | 1:1,603 | 418 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2,188 | 1:88,829 | 4,151 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 2,054 | 1:25,700 | 2,392 |
| Yemen | - | 2,003 | 1:13,129 | 789 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1,940 | 1:2,458 | 416 |
| Morocco | 100% | 1,774 | 1:19,362 | 1,218 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1,722 | 1:369 | 87 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 1,549 | 1:3,633 | 598 |
| Albania | 100% | 1,468 | 1:2,075 | 453 |
| Cameroon | 99% | 1,457 | 1:14,832 | 1,500 |
| Iraq | 100% | 1,366 | 1:25,635 | 1,269 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,348 | 1:20,019 | 1,515 |
| Benin | 100% | 1,330 | 1:7,952 | 1,174 |
| Denmark | - | 1,325 | 1:4,264 | 548 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,290 | 1:3,516 | 576 |
| Uganda | 99% | 1,286 | 1:31,848 | 2,214 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,271 | 1:76,759 | 6,049 |
| Ireland | 99% | 1,266 | 1:3,668 | 420 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 1,171 | 1:15,696 | 1,532 |
| Norway | 100% | 1,073 | 1:4,783 | 591 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,052 | 1:5,086 | 492 |
| Haiti | 100% | 1,031 | 1:10,404 | 1,108 |
| Nigeria | 85% | 827 | 1:214,709 | 9,073 |
| Hungary | 100% | 790 | 1:12,395 | 336 |
| Togo | - | 742 | 1:9,756 | 1,430 |
| Wales | 100% | 730 | 1:4,239 | 543 |
| Somalia | - | 678 | 1:19,950 | 1,455 |
| Kosovo | - | 628 | 1:2,964 | 624 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 614 | 1:3,002 | 417 |
| Jordan | 100% | 610 | 1:14,470 | 931 |
| Czechia | 100% | 609 | 1:17,498 | 543 |
| Japan | - | 585 | 1:218,780 | 7,199 |
| China | - | 573 | 1:2,384,042 | 44,806 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 517 | 1:29,833 | 3,001 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 495 | 1:2,750 | 533 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 494 | 1:1,142 | 235 |
| Turkey | 100% | 491 | 1:158,456 | 3,966 |
| Samoa | - | 456 | 1:428 | 122 |
| Liberia | 100% | 448 | 1:9,848 | 911 |
| Ukraine | - | 444 | 1:102,477 | 865 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 359 | 1:66,211 | 9,108 |
| Vanuatu | - | 345 | 1:759 | 206 |
| San Marino | 100% | 339 | 1:97 | 11 |
| Zambia | - | 334 | 1:47,469 | 3,050 |
| Israel | 100% | 327 | 1:25,697 | 2,175 |
| Cambodia | 98% | 317 | 1:51,335 | 3,076 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 312 | 1:172 | 32 |
| Malta | - | 307 | 1:1,399 | 297 |
| Mauritius | - | 298 | 1:4,355 | 724 |
| Cape Verde | - | 263 | 1:2,012 | 344 |
| Algeria | 100% | 249 | 1:153,320 | 2,849 |
| Belize | 100% | 249 | 1:1,423 | 317 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 233 | 1:132,243 | 12,172 |
| Suriname | 100% | 230 | 1:2,404 | 565 |
| French Polynesia | - | 222 | 1:1,252 | 279 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 222 | 1:15,992 | 831 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 200 | 1:463 | 79 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 191 | 1:1,414 | 302 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 180 | 1:3,228 | 474 |
| Qatar | 100% | 179 | 1:13,238 | 2,052 |
| Malawi | 100% | 169 | 1:101,256 | 5,457 |
| Oman | - | 156 | 1:26,338 | 2,030 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 155 | 1:46,142 | 4,213 |
| Dominica | - | 153 | 1:493 | 111 |
| Singapore | 94% | 152 | 1:41,362 | 6,586 |
| Bahrain | - | 148 | 1:9,113 | 1,459 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 140 | 1:1,270 | 217 |
| Palestine | 100% | 138 | 1:32,971 | 1,292 |
| Kuwait | - | 133 | 1:28,461 | 2,834 |
| Botswana | 100% | 121 | 1:18,053 | 2,233 |
| Guyana | 100% | 121 | 1:6,308 | 1,082 |
| Barbados | - | 120 | 1:2,415 | 508 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Hong Kong | - | 115 | 1:67,415 | 2,623 |
| Niger | 86% | 114 | 1:168,281 | 5,120 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 105 | 1:1,484 | 392 |
| Swaziland | - | 103 | 1:12,623 | 1,554 |
| Jamaica | - | 102 | 1:28,267 | 2,010 |
| Brunei | 100% | 94 | 1:4,464 | 441 |
| South Korea | 100% | 90 | 1:61,605 | 3,815 |
| Namibia | - | 88 | 1:27,320 | 2,221 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 82 | 1:462 | 108 |
| Aruba | - | 79 | 1:1,314 | 269 |
| Andorra | - | 74 | 1:1,120 | 166 |
| Guam | - | 73 | 1:2,201 | 474 |
| Monaco | 100% | 68 | 1:566 | 101 |
| Senegal | 100% | 68 | 1:214,432 | 4,209 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 67 | 1:43,803 | 3,867 |
| Central African Republic | - | 49 | 1:92,151 | 221 |
| Jersey | - | 44 | 1:2,272 | 391 |
| Rwanda | - | 36 | 1:315,873 | 1,243 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 36 | 1:5,333 | 836 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 34 | 1:156,178 | 1,205 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 29 | 1:70,345 | 6,713 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 29 | 1:1,767 | 266 |
| Kenya | 100% | 28 | 1:1,653,825 | 20,013 |
| Syria | - | 28 | 1:689,503 | 2,968 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 28 | 1:3,920 | 684 |
| Grenada | 100% | 27 | 1:4,005 | 688 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 27 | 1:1,285 | 317 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 25 | 1:45,508 | 307 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 25 | 1:283,547 | 466 |
| Iceland | 50% | 24 | 1:15,251 | 1,184 |
| American Samoa | - | 23 | 1:2,428 | 422 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 23 | 1:4,322 | 830 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 22 | 1:30,768 | 1,943 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 18 | 1:3,406 | 692 |
| Gibraltar | - | 18 | 1:1,897 | 362 |
| Iran | - | 17 | 1:4,617,463 | 18,600 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 17 | 1:3,216 | 586 |
| Guernsey | - | 16 | 1:3,958 | 490 |
| Vietnam | - | 15 | 1:6,174,874 | 3,722 |
| Nepal | - | 12 | 1:2,373,946 | 34,978 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 9 | 1:3,472 | 705 |
| Burundi | 100% | 9 | 1:1,100,729 | 1,050 |
| Mali | 100% | 9 | 1:1,886,417 | 3,997 |
| Macau | - | 8 | 1:76,026 | 700 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 7 | 1:15,940 | 2,043 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 6 | 1:14,170 | 269 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 4 | 1:12,282 | 1,318 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Nauru | 100% | 4 | 1:2,982 | 284 |
| South Sudan | 50% | 4 | 1:2,887,755 | 1,822 |
| Cook Islands | - | 3 | 1:6,051 | 772 |
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,795 | 134 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Maldives | 100% | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Niue | - | 1 | 1:1,604 | 70 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
The alternate forms: Marína (120), Mariña (57), Marinà (4), Márina (3) & Mariná (2) are calculated separately.
Marina (44,167) may also be a surname.
Marina Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. St Marina of Alexandria was a virgin martyr venerated in the Greek Church and sometimes identified with St Margaret of Antioch. The etymology of the name is doubtful, though it is usually identified with the Latin adj marinus ‘of the sea'. A Marina de Beseville is mentioned in Feudal Aids 1302. A writer to Notes and Queries. in 1883 said: ‘There is a family in this parish [South Stoke, Wallingford] who have used the name Marina (abbreviated to Rena) for some generations. I baptized the elder daughter by that name.’ The marriage of Prince George to Princess Marina of Greece in 1934 gave a certain vogue to the name in England.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
An Italian name, the f. of Latin marinus, ‘of the sea,’ was brought to England in 1934 by the Princess Marina and there popularised by her courtship and marriage with H. R. H. Prince George, now the Duke of Kent. Any girl so named will, ca. 1960-80, feel sorry that she was: parents should have more sense than to bestow these superannuating names, graceful as they admittedly are if viewed as compliments.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Latin name, meaning: Of the sea.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
User-submitted Reference
A femal name, meaning 'from the sea', from the Latin word marine.
- mareenaMarina Forename Popularity
Marina Demographics
Average Marina Salary in
United States
$42,223 USD
Per year
Rank:
221,056 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0187453
Rank: 711 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
97%
Sample size: 36,598 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Marina Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Marina in the Russian language | ||
| Марина | marina | - |
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