Marina
Marina reached its high-water mark in 1994 at number 218, and has been recorded 39,565 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 601st. About 36,000 Marinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marina boys named Marina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 39,565
- Estimated living today
- 36,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 218th
- Rank in 2025
- 601st
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 39,514 / 51
How old the living Marinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 39,565 babies given the name since 1886, about 36,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 8,200 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Name of an early virgin martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church, Latin Marīna, probably a feminine form of Marīnus, from marīnus (“of the sea”), or a variant of Marīa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marinas
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)Russian poet
- Marina Abramović (born 1946)Serbian performance artist
- Marina Silva (born 1958)Brazilian environmentalist and politician
- Marina Ovsyannikova (born 1978)Russian television journalist
- Marina Diamandis (born 1985)British singer
- Marina Vlady (born 1938)French actress, singer, and writer
- Marina Raskova (1912–1943)Soviet pilot
- Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906–1968)Duchess of Kent from 1934 to 1968
People named Marina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marina is most concentrated in California (2.9×), Arizona (2.4×), New Mexico (2.3×), Texas (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular girls’ names the year Marina peaked:
Marina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Marina | 44,545 | 50th |
| Spain girls | Marina | 32,932 | 13th |
| Italy girls | Marina | 5,227 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Marina | 1,559 | 580th |
| Norway girls | Marina | 1,552 | 146th |
| Switzerland girls | Marina | 1,305 | 60th |
| Ireland girls | Marina | 490 | 172nd |
| Poland girls | Marina | 463 birth registrations | 186th |
| Belgium girls | Marina | 424 | 390th |
| Scotland girls | Marina | 272 | 216th |
| Austria girls | Marina | 195 | 59th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Marina | 3 | 343rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Marina | 1,072 | 0.086% | 61st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Marina | 195 | 0.045% | 82nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Marina | 33 | 0.051% | 87th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Marina | 5 | 0.134% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marina is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.14% of children were given it – 157 of them.
Marina: rank by region
In 2024, Marina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Marina | 460 | 5 |
In 2014, Marina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illes Balears | Marina | 8 | 78 |
In 2025, Marina was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Marina | 234 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Marina | 147 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Marina | 217 | 5 |
| Pomorskie | Marina | 209 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Marina | 255 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Marina | 248 | 2 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marina appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (223rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 21 | 345th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Marina | 7,153 | 17,329 |
| Finland girls | Marina | 2,315 | 4,143 |
| the Netherlands boys | Marina | — | 89 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 948 women called Mariña were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Marina | 4,044 | 6.448 | 18 |
| Málaga | Marina | 5,326 | 5.811 | 25 |
| Ourense | Marina | 864 | 5.447 | 34 |
| Cantabria | Marina | 1,609 | 5.255 | 34 |
| Girona | Marina | 2,133 | 5.151 | 32 |
| Córdoba | Marina | 2,020 | 5.111 | 43 |
Listed in 57 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.