Marina
Girl nameMarina has been given to 39,565 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It peaked in 1994 and currently ranks #602 for girls (2025).
Meaning & origin /məˈɹiːnə/
Name of an early virgin martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church, Latin Marīna, probably a feminine form of Marīnus, from marīnus (“of the sea”), or a variant of Marīa.
Origin: Latin
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Popularity over time births per year, 1880–2025
Total babies
39,565
Peak year
1994 (1,307 babies)
Rank in 2025
#602 for girls
First recorded
1886
10-year trend
▲ +12%
Gender split
100% girls / 0% boys
Famous people named Marina
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
Marina Abramović
Serbian performance artist (born 1946)
Marina Silva
Brazilian environmentalist and politician (born 1958)
Marina Ovsyannikova
Russian television journalist
Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names with a similar vibe
Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Marina.
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