Maryna
Around 30,000 Polish women carry it, but hardly any girls get it now: the newborn count has dropped to nothing in recent years. A Slavic name meaning "of the sea".
Maryna Pronunciation
Maryna is pronounced mah-RIH-nah (/maˈrɨna/).
What Maryna means
Where Maryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Maryna belongs to the Slavic naming tradition, and its short meaning is plain: of the sea. That sense reaches back to the old Latin word marinus, which described whatever came from salt water, while the form Maryna itself grew up on Slavic tongues.
Around it sits a family of related forms. Maria and María stand as variants, and the diminutives Marysia and Mania soften the name for daily use. A girl entered on a school register as Maryna may answer to Marysia by the second week.
The name traveled well across the border. In Ukrainian it is the common form, and Polish speakers recognize it at once.
What holds through every variant is that first sense: morska, znad morza, of the sea.
When Maryna celebrates name day
Maryna appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Maryna
1 in 735 women in Poland is named Maryna. 30,671 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #239 among female names.
Maryna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Maryna is most popular
Maryna is most popular in Łódź, 753% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+376%).
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Łódź2 girls born+753%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+376%
Maryna as a middle name
Maryna is a first name for 30,671 women in Poland and a middle name for another 73, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 785th, between Ludomiła (73) and Nawojka (73).
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#783 Gisela73
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#784 Ludomiła73
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#785 Maryna73
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#786 Nawojka73
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#787 Vittoria73