girls:
38.6k births since 1886
#693 (88th percentile)
boys:
51 births since 1983
#4535 (1st percentile)
overall:
38.6k births since 1886
#1267 (84th percentile)
The name Marina is the #1,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,604 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #693 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 38,553 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #4,535 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1983.
Marina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Marina is available in 132 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (132 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marina reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 74.9% percentile (ranked #213) with 670 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 670 births per million (ranked 74.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marina ranks #494 for girls (47.9% percentile) with 296 births per million, which is 44.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marina reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marina".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.1% confident that Marina is pronounced as muh-REE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-EE-nuh, at 20.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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