Given name & surname
Mareen
“woman of the sea”
Mareen is a variant of Marina. One Latin interpretation is “woman of the sea.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mareen is a variant of Marina. One Latin interpretation is “woman of the sea.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mareen is a variant of Marina. An origin associated with Marina is Late Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mareen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 60
- 0 boys · 60 girls
- Most popular year
- 1940
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1964. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1940. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 226 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mareen’s family of names
Mareen has a related form in Marina. In German usage, Mareen has a related form in Maren.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mareen
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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