Marinela
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2023
/maɾinela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marinela is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian.
- HRCroatia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 14K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)Borrowed from Italian.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marinela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #962 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Marinela | 34 |
| AO Angola | #191 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 1 | Marinela | 24 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Marinela | 50 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Marinela | 21 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Marinela | 32 |
| AL Albania | #450 | 1,799 | 1 in 1.7K | 1.8K | Marinela | 41 |
| HR Croatia | #530 | 1,341 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.3K | Marinela | 45 |
| MD Moldova | — | 985 | 1 in 3.4K | 985 | — | 4 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marinela Ghițăb. 1955RORomanian rower
- Marinela Chelarub. 1959RORomanian actress
- Marinela Malisicb. 1979DKDanish actress
- Zuleide Marinela Cardosob. 1983AOAngolan sport cyclist
- Cristina Marinela GoileanESuniversity teacher
- Marinela OanăRORomanian politician from Șibot, Alba County
- Marinela DumitreleRORomanian politician
- Marinela MetaALgoce me namuz, goce per shpi
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.8K | #242 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.3K | #477 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 985 | #348 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 1 | #17,233 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #120 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #422 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marinela mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Marinela?
- In the etymology graph, Marina, Rina and Marine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Marinela?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾinela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Marinela a male or female name?
- Marinela is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Albania (INSTAT Albania), Spain (INE), Venezuela (asosab) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- In which country does Marinela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Marinela in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marinela.
- How common is the name Marinela?
- In Albania, the national register counted 1,799 people named Marinela, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Marinela compared with other names?
- In Romania, Marinela is the 962nd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marinela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marinelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Marinela” — the 962nd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.