Marinka

given name · Latin script

Meaning: ['morigko]: weibl

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mariŋka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Marinka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 4.7K
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.3K

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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarinkaLatin(measured from records)
МаринкаCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

['morigko]: weibl.

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marinka 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.

Where Marinka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#931≈1,700 est.≈1 in 4.1K—Marinka32
SI Slovenia#4321,6181 in 1.3K1.6KMarinka16
HR Croatia#6549041 in 4.7K904Marinka35
NL Netherlands—8821 in 20K877Marinka53
FI Finland—1631 in 34K175Marinka4
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈130 est.≈1 in 29K—Marinka6

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marinka is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Mexico, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Márinka

  • Czech given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Márinka, Mařinka

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Netherlands

    Languages: Ukrainian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Marynka, Márynka

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marinka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, dim of Marina.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

19201940196019802000Marinka Dallos, b. 1929Marinka Marija Miklič, b. 1948Marinka Körzendörfer, b. 1953Marinka Žitnik, b. 1989

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)

InformalBok Marinka,Hi Marinka, (English)

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 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Marinka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.7K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.7K#139
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.7K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.7K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.7K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.7K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.7K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.7K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.7K#144
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.7K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20181.7K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20191.7K#145

Reference works 2

  • 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 Marinka mean, and where does it come from?
['morigko]: weibl. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
How do you pronounce Marinka?
A machine transcription gives /mariŋka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Marinka a male or female name?
Marinka 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.
What are other forms of the name Marinka?
In the etymology graph, Marina, Rina and Marine are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Marinka have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Marinka in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marinka.
Where is Marinka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marinka is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Marinka?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,618 people named Marinka in 2025, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Marinka compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Marinka is the 931st most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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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, “Marinka” — the 931st most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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