Mérina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mérina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 5.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 29Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 190Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mérina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
222,695 named Marina, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Merina in BR Brazil, US United States, HR Croatia and 3 more and Marina in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mérina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 222,695as Marina | 1 in 951 | 223K | Merina | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 99,167as Marina | 1 in 504 | 99K | Marina | 39 |
| US United States | — | 72,807as Marina | 1 in 4.6K | 73K | Merina | 170 |
| HR Croatia | — | 23,604as Marina | 1 in 179 | 24K | Merina | 5 |
| MD Moldova | — | 21,989as Marina | 1 in 153 | 22K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,253as Marina | 1 in 907 | 11K | — | 5 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Merina | 13 |
| LV Latvia | — | 8,884as Marina | 1 in 212 | 8.9K | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | #796 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Merina | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 41 | 1 in 421K | 7.2K | Merina | 9 |
222,695 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling marina. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); e-services.md — living population register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mérina a male or female name?
- Mérina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mérina have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 223 thousand people named Marina, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mérina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 41 people named Mérina, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
- How common is Mérina compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mérina is the 796th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mérina” — the 796th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.