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Marna

Girls' name

Short form of Marina

Marna has been given to 2,678 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1947, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Marna, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marna: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Marina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marna means

Marna is a short form of Marina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marna is used in Danish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marna → Marina. The family’s proposed meaning is “of the sea”, recorded in English with the source elements marīnus.

Origin, language, and formation

Marna is used in Faroese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,678 girls were recorded with the name Marna between 1913 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,010 in 1947.

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 Marna?

Marna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marna 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marna was born before 1951 — so the typical Marna is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,459
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (573).

Is Marna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (77)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,010
1947

Spellings of Marna

Marna is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 39.9% against Marna'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 Marna is used

Across 1910–2025, Marna was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 149,018 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

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. Marna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marna around the world

Where Marna 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1951–1954
    #475
    in 1954

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marna 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
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Best rank ever
#1,010
1947
Peak year
1947
77 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
2,678
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marna

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

MarisMarliMarynMarwaMarahMaryaMarniMarryMartyMarlyMartiMariyaMarelyMarinMariluMaryahMarloMaramMarlowMaritMarlinMarkieMaryanMarlie

Names with a curve like Marna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Marna

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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