Marinaro
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Marinaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: occupational name for a sailor, marinaro (from Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’).
- ARArgentina1 in 51K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 97K
- BEBelgium1 in 266K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
1,194 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a sailor, marinaro (from Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’). In the form Marinaros this is also found as a Greek family name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marinaro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,194 | 1 in 279K | 1.2K | Marinaro | 54 |
| AR Argentina | 887 | 1 in 51K | 887 | Marinaro | 50 |
| CH Switzerland | 87 | 1 in 97K | 87 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 70 | 1 in 3M | 70 | Marinaro | 30 |
| BE Belgium | 44 | 1 in 266K | 44 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
1,194 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Marinaro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, seafaring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, de marina com sufixo sing. -aro; marinheiro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Marinai
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Francesco Marinarob. 1892ITItalian politician
- Enrico Marinarob. 1896ITItalian politician
- Beatrice Angiolina Marinarob. 1917ITItalian Esperanto teacher
- Ed Marinarob. 1950USAmerican football player and actor (born 1950)
- Francesca Maria Marinarob. 1952ITItalian politician
- Hector Marinarob. 1964CACanadian soccer player
- Rob Marinarob. 1969CACanadian soccer player
- María Florencia Marinarob. 1985ARArgentinian politician
- Michael Marinarob. 1992CACanadian pair skater
- Simone Marinarob. 1993ITItalian rugby union player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 997 | #23,698 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 887 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 87 | #12,314 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70 | #82,471 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 44 | #28,668 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #74,439 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Marinaro come from?
- occupational name for a sailor, marinaro (from Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’). In the form Marinaros this is also found as a Greek family name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Marinaro mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name for a sailor, marinaro (from Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’).
- In which country does Marinaro have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Marinaro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marinaro.
- Where is Marinaro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marinaro is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marinaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,194 people named Marinaro in 2010, about 1 in 279 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marinaroThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Marinaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.