Surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese

Mariñas

“marine”

Mariñas is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Tagalog and Galician.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Mariñas goes back to Latin marina, meaning “marine.”

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Where it comes from

Mariñas comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.

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How it developed

From Latin marina (“marine”).

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Mariñas’s family of names

In Galician usage, Mariñas as a surname has a related form in Marinhas.

Walk Mariñas’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

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Latin

Mariü̍s

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Maksimianas

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Latin

Mikuláš

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Latin

Marignac

Marignac is a surname from Latin. It is used in French.

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Latin

Mārtiņš

“of or like Mars”

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>99% boys

Biblical Hebrew · Biblical

Maryja

Maryja is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Polish.

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>99% girls

Latin

Manlius

Manlius is a surname. It is used in Latin.

No U.S. birth series

80% boys · 20% girls

Sibling ideas

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