🔥Marina

Ma-REEN-a
Latin
"from the sea"

Marina Origin and Meaning

The name Marina is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "from the sea".

This pretty sea-born name was used to dramatic effect by Shakespeare in his play Pericles for the virtuous princess who says she is "Call'd Marina, for I was born at sea."

Marina was an epithet of Venus, and there was more than one saint of that name. It was used in Britain from as early as the fourteenth century.

Although it reached as high as Number 219 in 1994, Marina never had the trendy feel of cousins Melissa and Marissa. It's now very popular in Spain.

A prominent current bearer is Marina Abramovic, widely publicized New York-based Serbian performance artist. And actor Matt LeBlanc chose the name for his daughter, Marina Pearl.

# 573 in the US

Marina Rank in US Top 1000

# 259 on Nameberry

Marina Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Marina Popularity

Famous People Named Marina

  • Marina
    Princess of Greece & Denmark, Duchess of Kent, wife of Britain's Prince George
  • Marina Petrovna Golitsyna
    Princess of Russia; great,granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I
  • Marina Abramović
    Serbian,American performance artist
  • Marina Teresa Squerciati
    American Actress
  • Marina Lambrini Diamandis
    Welsh singer of Marina and the Diamonds
  • Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina
    French,Russian Olympic ice dancer
  • Marina Erakovic
    New Zealand tennis player
  • Marina Ginesta
    Catalan Communist militant during the Spanish Civil War
  • Marina Ann Hantzis
    birth name of American actress Sasha Grey
  • Marina Inoue
    Japanese voice actress
  • Marina Evelyn Keegan
    American essayist
  • Marina Sirtis
    British,American actress
  • Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
    Russian poet
  • Marina Tucakovic
    Serbian songwriter
  • Marina Viskovic
    Serbian singer
  • Marina Zivkovic
    Serbian singer
  • Marina Nery
    Brazilian model
  • Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella
    Cesi, Italian,American grandmother of actress Brooke Shields
  • Marina Louise Bukowski
    only child of novelist Charles Bukowski
  • Marina Victoria Alexandra Ogilvy
    daughter of Britain's Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy; great,granddaughter of King George V
  • Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Helen Windsor
    b. 1992, daughter of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
  • Marina Pearl LeBlanc
    b. 2004, daughter of actor Matt LeBlanc
  • Marina Corwin (b. 2008)
    daughter of biologist and TV personality Jeff Corwin
  • Marina Irodova (b. 2009)
    daughter of singer Yegor Irodov
  • Marina Malpica
    Mexican rhythmic gymnast

Marina in Pop Culture

  • Marina
    character in "Exodus" by Leon Uris
  • Marina
    character in Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" ("Call'd Marina/For I was born at sea.")
  • Marina Conway
    character in movie "Blowing Wind"
  • Marina Ferrer
    character on TV's "The L Word"
  • Marina Lemke
    character in movie "The Butcher's Wife"
  • Marina Rudd
    character in movie "The Mirror Crack'd"
  • Marina Morrison
    character in Ena Lamont Stewart's play "Men Should Weep"
  • Marina Thwaite
    character in The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
  • Marina Datillo
    character on TV's "Arthur"
  • Marina Andrieski
    character on TV's "The Magicians"
  • "Marina
    " song by Dorival Caymmi
  • Marina
    a character from the video game Splatoon 2
  • Marina
    a specially designed harbor with moorings for pleasure craft and small boats.
  • "Marina del Rey"
    song by George Strait