Marin
About 7,106 American babies have been named Marin since 1913, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 2,036th. About 6,900 Marins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marin boys named Marin
Girls and boys called Marin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 6,096 girls and 1,010 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 93 to 20.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 52 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,106
- Estimated living today
- 6,900
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 865th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,036th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 6,096 / 1,010
How old the living Marins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,106 babies given the name since 1913, about 6,900 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Serbo-Croatian
From Serbo-Croatian Marin, from Latin Marinus, from marinus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marins
- Marin Mersenne (1588–1648)French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics"
- Marin Čilić (born 1988)Croatian tennis player
- Marin Marais (1656–1728)French composer and viol player
- Marin Pongračić (born 1997)Croatian association football player
- Marin Hinkle (born 1966)American actress
- Marin Alsop (born 1956)American conductor and violinist
- Marin Barleti (1450–1513)Catholic priest, Albanian humanist and historian
- Marin Getaldić (1568–1626)Croatian mathematician and physicist
People named Marin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marin is most concentrated in Colorado (3.2×), Minnesota (2.6×), California (1.9×), Washington (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Marin peaked:
Marin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Marin | 13,295 | 84th |
| Switzerland boys | Marin | 400 | 209th |
| Belgium boys | Marin | 229 | 392nd |
| England and Wales boys | Marin | 84 | 2,228th |
| England and Wales girls | Marin | 60 | 2,843rd |
| France girls | Marin | 50 | 3,825th |
| Ireland girls | Marin | 6 | 893rd |
| Scotland girls | Marin | 4 | 653rd |
| Ireland boys | Marin | 3 | 698th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Marin | 323 | 0.026% | 180th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Marin | 72 | 0.017% | 220th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Marin | 5 | 0.008% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marin is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Marin: rank by region
In 2025, Marin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Marin | 177 | 16 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marin appears in the lists for Province of Liège (147th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 7 | 515th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Marin | 5 | 10 |
| Finland girls | Marin | 8 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,358 men called Marin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Marin | 40 | 0.504 | 204 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Marin | 69 | 0.221 | 411 |
| Soria | Marin | 10 | 0.218 | 376 |
| Teruel | Marin | 13 | 0.187 | 441 |
| Zaragoza | Marin | 87 | 0.177 | 405 |
| Huesca | Marin | 20 | 0.171 | 450 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.