Marina

Where Marina comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marina
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #993 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1892
    Marina Tsvetaeva born
    Russian poet
  3. 1946
    Marina Abramović born
    Serbian performance artist
  4. 1994
    Peak, #218
    1,307 babies named Marina — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #533.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Marina Tsvetaeva · Russian poet, 1892–1941
  • Marina Abramović · Serbian performance artist, born 1946
  • Marina Silva · Brazilian environmentalist and politician, born 1958
  • Marina Ovsyannikova · Russian television journalist, born 1978
  • Marina Diamandis · British singer, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.