Marina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: navy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 504(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 951
- BYBelarus≈1 in 70as Марина
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 Marina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #48 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- 1 in 153 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 named Марина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Марина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.
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)
From the sea; also used as a feminine name.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marina is read(measured from records)
Marina is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish43%
navy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
From the sea; also used as a feminine name.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A harbour for small boats.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
marina (harbour for small boats)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marina in Russian.
- French5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marina in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #23 | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 74 | #22 | Марина | 279 |
| UA Ukraine | #41 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | listed | Марина | 146 |
| BR Brazil | #153 | 222,695 | 1 in 951 | 223K | Marina | 226 |
| BY Belarus | #17 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | 7 | Марина | 65 |
| ES Spain | #117 | 99,167 | 1 in 504 | 99K | Marina | 233 |
| GE Georgia | #44 | 23,794as მარინა | 1 in 168 | 24K | Marina | 59 |
| MD Moldova | #960 | 21,989 | 1 in 153 | 22K | Marina | 36 |
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); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1. topographic name meaning ‘coast’, ‘coastal area’, or a habitational name from a place called Marina. 2. in some cases, perhaps from the female personal name Marina.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Latin: ‘of the sea’. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marina Iwanowna Zwetajewab. 1892RURussian poet (1892 – 1941)
- Princess Marina of Greece and Denmarkb. 1906GBDuchess of Kent from 1934 to 1968
- Marina Abramovićb. 1946RSSerbian performance artist (born 1946)
- Marina Sirtisb. 1955GBBritish actress
- Marina Silvab. 1958BRBrazilian environmentalist and politician (born 1958)
- Marina Aleksandrovab. 1982RURussian actress
- MakSimb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer
- Marina Diamandisb. 1985GBBritish singer
- Marina Sattib. 1986GRGreek musician (born 1986)
- Anna Karinab. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, model, writer, DJ and musician; former pornographic actress (born 1988)
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)
Attested in 133 sources across 68 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 223K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 222K | #143 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 209K | #250 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 99K | #98 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 98K | #51 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 22K | #52 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #143 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Marina come from?
- From the sea; also used as a feminine name. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What does the name Marina mean?
- In Spanish, navy
- What are other forms of the name Marina?
- In the etymology graph, Marine, Ina and Maryna are forms of the same name in other languages; Rina and Marinella are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Marina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Марина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 153 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Marina a male or female name?
- Marina 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.
- How do you pronounce Marina?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Marina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 222,695 people named Marina in 2022, about 1 in 951 residents.
- How common is Marina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Marina is the 23rd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marinaThe 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, “Marina” — the 23rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.