Marina is the feminine form of Marinus, which originally was an ancient Roman family name. It originated from Latin word ‘marinus’ for ‘of the sea’. Today, Marinus is mainly used in the Netherlands.
Marina is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Marina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Marina ranks 618. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Marina. In the entire USA, approximately 33,216 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marina. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Marina is the feminine form of Marinus, which originally was an ancient Roman family name. It originated from Latin word ‘marinus’ for ‘of the sea’. Today, Marinus is mainly used in the Netherlands.
Marina is known... in almost all European languages. In the US, it had its most popular phase during the 1990s.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Marina is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marina, you can simply say:
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Apple
Rocket
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Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marina
Marina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
R
I
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
R
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N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marina sounds like this:
