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Marinda

Girls' name

Diminutive of Mary

Marinda has been given to 1,714 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Marinda, 2014

1 in 618,000

Marinda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marinda: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Mary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marinda means

Marinda is a diminutive of Mary.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marinda is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mə.ˈɹɪn.də/ for Marinda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marinda → Mary → Marie → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,714 girls were recorded with the name Marinda between 1881 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1980; its best national rank was #622 in 1882.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marinda?

Marinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marinda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marinda was born before 1977 — so the typical Marinda is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (340).

Is Marinda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (48)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#622
1882

Spellings of Marinda

Marinda is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 40.5% against Marinda's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Marinda was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 524,454 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marinda around the world

Where Marinda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1969–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marinda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#622
1882
Peak year
1980
48 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
1,714
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marinda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Marinda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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