Marino

Locally spelled Mariño in VE Venezuela, CO Colombia, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Spanish:/maɾino/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/marino/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Marino is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English55%

  nickname apparently from Middle English majorane, mageram ‘marjoram’, the plant Origanum vulgare (Old French majorane, Medieval Latin majorana).

  as a name·The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

• Spanish24%

  marine, nautical

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Italian5.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Marino in Italian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Marino, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Romano
• Lino
• Delmar
• Elio
• Leone

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Marino is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Mariño, Marinò, Maryino, Marińo, Marinó

• Croatian surname16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Mariño, Марино, Marinò, Màrìnò

• a separate name9 spellings in the group

  Also written Marin-O, Marinô, Maríno, Marińo, Mariño

• French given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Maryine, Màryîne, Mariño, Märyïne

• Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Italy, Canada

  Also written Mariño

• Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Peru

  Also written Mariño, Marinò, Màrînô, Marinô

• Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Japan, Italy, Spain

  Also written Mariño

• Swedish surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Icelandic

  Also written Mariño, Mârînô, Marinó

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Marino is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Italian/foreign form from Latin marinus, ‘of the sea’.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• Spanish and Galician (Marino); occupational name for a sailor, marino (from Latin marinas ‘of the sea’).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Italian; from the personal name Marino, from Latin Marinas (see Marin 1).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• habitational name from any of various places named Marino.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Marino Marinib. 1901ITItalian sculptor (1901-1980)
• Ignazio Marinob. 1955ITItalian surgeon and politician (1955-)
• Dan Marinob. 1961USAmerican football player, quarterback, Pro Football Hall of Fame member

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

89 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Marino come from?

Italian/foreign form from Latin marinus, ‘of the sea’. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.

What are other forms of the name Marino?

In the etymology graph, Marin, Marinero and Marinos are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Marino?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /maɾino/; in Italian /marino/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Marino mean?

In English, nickname apparently from Middle English majorane, mageram ‘marjoram’, the plant Origanum vulgare (Old French majorane, Medieval Latin majorana).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Marino?

Mondonomo estimates about 72 thousand people named Marino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marino. After it come United States, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Marino?

In the United States, the national register counted 31,687 people named Marino in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.

How common is Marino compared with other names?

In Italy, Marino is the 21st most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.