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Marine

Gender
Girl
Say it
mah-REEN
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Marine is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “of the sea”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Marine mean?

Latin: French feminine form of Marinus, from Latin marinus 'of the sea'

“of the sea”

A French feminine form of the Roman name Marinus, from Latin marinus, 'of the sea'; related to Marina.

Is Marine a girl's or a boy's name?

Marine is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Marine in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 9 girls.

1996Busiest: 9 in 20022013
Marine in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20133#6,003
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20084#4,742
20073#5,415
20060–
20050–
20040–
20036#2,877
20029#2,040
20010–
20008#2,097
19995#2,912
19984#3,310
19973#3,991
19964#3,289

How popular is Marine in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Marine, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 1934, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1900.

Half of all the girls named Marine in the US since 1880 were born between 1925 and 1989, the years shaded on the chart below.

1900Busiest: 31 in 19342025
Marine in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20230–
20227#12,237
20210–
202010#9,541
20195#15,532
20185#15,677
20170–
20165#16,210
20156#14,477
20149#10,949
20130–
20126#14,956
20115#16,756
20108#12,270
20096#15,236
20080–
20070–
20060–
20055#16,455
20045#16,092
20039#10,420
200213#7,810
20019#10,095
200015#6,802
199914#6,830
199812#7,527
19979#9,012
199612#7,125
19958#9,548
199410#8,116
199315#5,949
19925#13,308
199112#6,969
19909#8,495
198912#6,525
19880–
19876#9,820
19868#7,745
19850–
19847#8,149
19839#6,703
19827#8,222
19816#9,108
198012#5,543
19790–
197816#4,242
19777#7,565
19765#9,282
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19715#8,322
19700–
19697#5,972
19680–
19677#5,456
19660–
19650–
19645#6,766
19637#5,295
19628#4,864
19610–
19600–
19596#5,565
19580–
19570–
19560–
19555#5,826
19548#4,276
19538#4,225
19526#4,906
19516#4,832
19508#3,960
19496#4,672
19485#5,241
19478#4,005
19469#3,429
19458#3,386
194411#2,761
19437#3,800
194213#2,536
19410–
194013#2,296
193912#2,417
193810#2,729
193718#1,845
193611#2,520
193514#2,205
193431#1,292
19339#2,867
193221#1,684
193119#1,802
193016#2,109
192918#1,952
192827#1,540
192713#2,551
192621#1,882
192522#1,846
192417#2,211
192325#1,672
192215#2,387
192126#1,668
192017#2,172
191911#2,812
191822#1,754
191720#1,773
191614#2,246
191516#1,963
19146#3,187
19130–
19128#2,143
19118#1,792
19100–
19095#2,208
19080–
19070–
19065#1,951
19050–
19040–
19030–
19025#1,792
19010–
19007#1,560

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Marine: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/marine, updated 20 October 2026.