Marna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Swedish vernacular form of Marina, now occasionally also used in the English-speaking world
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 2.4Kas มานะ(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 63Kas Mama
- DKDenmark1 in 29K
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 Marna 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named มานะ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled มานะ in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.
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)
Swedish vernacular form of Marina, now occasionally also used in the English-speaking world. Pet form: Marnie (well established as an independent given name in North America).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #310 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | #114,745 | มานะ | 126 |
| US United States | — | 5,267as Mama | 1 in 63K | 5.2K | Marna | 260 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 180K | listed | มานะ | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Marna | 35 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Marna | 17 |
| DK Denmark | — | 205 | 1 in 29K | 205 | Marna | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 179as Mana | 1 in 57K | 179 | Marna | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the id-github-names 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)
Marna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Occitan, Marne (a right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, feminine nominative/vocative singular of marny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of marner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gni, older brother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, marl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Marna Clarkeb. 1940USAmerican photographer (born 1940)
- Marna ShopoffUSvisual artist
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 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,825 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 205 | #990 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 77 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 74 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 72 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 70 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 68 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 66 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 61 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 55 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Marna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Swedish vernacular form of Marina, now occasionally also used in the English-speaking world.
- Where does the name Marna come from?
- Swedish vernacular form of Marina, now occasionally also used in the English-speaking world. Pet form: Marnie (well established as an independent given name in North America). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Marna?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Marna a male or female name?
- Marna is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Marna?
- In the etymology graph, Marina, Rina and Marine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named มานะ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marna is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marna?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 205 people named Marna, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Marna compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Marna is the 310th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marnaThe 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, “Marna” — the 310th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.