Given name
Maryna
“of the sea”
Maryna is a feminine given name from Russian and Ukrainian. It is used in English and Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maryna is a romanization of Марына. Марына goes back to a word meaning “of the sea.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Polish usage, Maryna is a feminine form of Maryn.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maryna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 129
- 0 boys · 129 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 10 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 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,711 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.
Maryna’s family of names
In Polish usage, Maryna has a diminutive in Marynia. In Polish usage, Maryna is a feminine form of Maryn. In Polish usage, Maryna has a conventional equivalent in the English form Marina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Maryna has relatives in 7 languages.
7 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maryna
- Maryna ViazovskaUkrainian mathematician (born 1984)
- Maryna ArzamasovaBelarusian middle-distance runnerborn 1987
- Maryna PoroshenkoFirst Lady of Ukraineborn 1962
- Maryna LitvinchukBelarusian canoeist (born 1988)
- Maryna AleksiyivaUkrainian synchronised swimmerborn 2001
- Maryna LinchukBelarusian modelborn 1987
- Maryna VasileuskayaBelarusian flight attendant and cosmonautborn 1990
- Maryna Gąsienica-DanielPolish alpine skierborn 1994
- Maryna Er GorbachUkrainian film directorborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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