Meaning of the nameMarina

Female
Latin origin
Ma-ri-na

Marina is a female name of Latin origin, probably the feminine of Marinus, which means 'of the sea'.

Meaning

“of the sea”

Source: Wiktionary: Marina · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Marina

People (2022): 222,695
Rank in Brazil: #143
Median age: 29 years
2010 Census: 208,542; people

Marina in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Marina, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (40,350 people).

221,672 women 1,023 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Marina is most common

States with the highest share of people named Marina in the population, in the 2022 Census.

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	63,508	0.143%
Minas Gerais	28,314	0.138%
Rio de Janeiro	19,278	0.120%
Rio Grande do Sul	14,836	0.136%
Bahia	13,281	0.094%
Paraná	11,715	0.102%
Santa Catarina	8,517	0.112%
Pernambuco	8,239	0.091%
Ceará	6,680	0.076%
Goiás	6,045	0.086%
Pará	4,372	0.054%
Maranhão	4,245	0.063%
Distrito Federal	4,229	0.150%
Espírito Santo	4,081	0.107%
Paraíba	3,522	0.089%
Rio Grande do Norte	3,235	0.098%
Mato Grosso	3,132	0.086%
Alagoas	2,789	0.089%
Piauí	2,639	0.081%
Mato Grosso do Sul	2,588	0.094%
Sergipe	2,080	0.094%
Amazonas	1,901	0.048%
Tocantins	1,254	0.083%
Rondônia	1,093	0.069%
Amapá	427	0.058%
Acre	374	0.045%
Roraima	321	0.050%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Marina

Wiktionary traces Marina to Latin Marīna, probably the feminine of Marīnus, from marīnus, 'of the sea', and allows that it may be a variant of Maria. Behind the Name describes it as a feminine form of Marinus, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil, citing Machado (1981), gives it as the feminine of marinus, 'of the sea'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 222,695 people named Marina, with a median age of 29. The name is almost always female and, proportionally, most common in the Distrito Federal.

Sources

Wiktionary: Marina · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Marina · behindthename.com · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Marina · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning

Questions about the name Marina

What does the name Marina mean?

Marina means “of the sea”, according to Wiktionary and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

How many people are named Marina in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 222,695 people with the first name Marina, which ranks it number 143 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

Is Marina a boy's or a girl's name?

Marina is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 221,672 women and 1,023 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Marina?

Marina is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Marina most common?

Proportionally, in Distrito Federal: 0.150% of the state's population is named Marina (4,229 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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