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Marine

#14,311 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Marina

Marine has been given to 996 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #14,311 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1934, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Marine, 2025

1 in 553,000

Marine over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marine: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Marina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marine means

Marine is a English equivalent of Marina.

Origin, language, and formation

Marine is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Marine is pronounced /ma.ʁin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 990 girls were recorded with the name Marine between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1934; its best national rank was #1,306 in 1934.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,008 in 2020 to #14,311 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,713 in 2015 to #14,311 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Marine between 1918 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1918; its best national rank was #3,998 in 1918.

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 Marine?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,311
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marine 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marine was born before 1940 — so the typical Marine is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
421
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Choose a decade

1920s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (201).

Is Marine 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,303
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.4%
Peak was 1934 (31)
Years since peak
91
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,306
1934

Spellings of Marine

Marine is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 19.9% against Marine's 0.03%.

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 Marine is used

Across 1910–2025, Marine was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 307,255 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6Tennessee1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Marine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marine around the world

Where Marine 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,311
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,303
Best rank ever
#1,306
1934
Peak year
1934
31 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
990
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,998
1918
Peak year
1918
6 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marine

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

MartineMarcineMarlineMarvineMarlaineMarayaMarilyMareliMartieMarleiMarenaMarikoMarcelineMaryanMarkieMarlinMarcellineMarlowMariskaMarlynnMaryahMariluMaramMarlina

Sibling names for Marine

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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