Marinus
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marinus is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- NLNetherlands1 in 145◐
- CYCyprus1 in 788
- FRFrance1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈253K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 315 ●
- 1 in 145 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
113K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marinos in US United States, EC Ecuador, MX Mexico and 3 more, Marin in ES Spain, FR France, CA Canada and 2 more, Mariños in CR Costa Rica, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 1 more and Μαρινος in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #31 | 119,229△ | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 145 | 119K | Marinus | 114 |
| FI Finland | — | 24,361△ | 15 rec. | 1 in 229 | 26K | — | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20,566△ | 136 rec. | 1 in 10K | 26K | Mariños | 21 |
| US United States | — | 20,534 | 19K rec. | 1 in 16K | 44K | Marinos | 198 |
| PE Peru | — | 16,891 | 12K rec. | — | — | Mariños | 35 |
| SE Sweden | — | 15,795△ | 37 rec. | 1 in 646 | 16K | — | 10 |
| HR Croatia | — | 13,107 | 0 rec. | 1 in 323 | 14K | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | 12,530 | 61K rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 13K | Marin | 315 |
| NO Norway | — | 11,200△ | 51 rec. | 1 in 488 | 60K | — | 11 |
| MD Moldova | — | 7,728△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 435 | 7.7K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,129 | 2K rec. | 1 in 16K | 108K | Marin | 85 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,025 | 1.8K rec. | — | 1 | Marinus | 87 |
Roughly 119K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 145). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian165K38%
- Dutch134K31%
- English125K29%
- German2.5K1%
- Danish2.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 165,178 | 38% |
| Dutch | 134,332 | 31% |
| English | 124,619 | 29% |
| German | 2,450 | 1% |
| Danish | 2,056 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Marinus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. lateinischen Ur sprungs, der auf den römischen Beinamen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Mari; no. Französ. Form: Marin [ma're].
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Danish, a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Marina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, marine; of or pertaining to the sea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1913 | 6 |
| 1914 | 8 |
| 1915 | 12 |
| 1916 | 16 |
| 1917 | 15 |
| 1918 | 16 |
| 1919 | 12 |
| 1920 | 17 |
| 1921 | 12 |
| 1922 | 8 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 11 |
| 1926 | 14 |
| 1927 | 10 |
| 1928 | 9 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1932 | 8 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 11 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1948 | 6 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1911–1950. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marinus of Tyreb. 100LBGreek cartographer and mathematician (c.70–130)
- Marinusb. 275HRSammarinese saint
- Marinus Ib. 830ITpope
- Marinus IIb. 900ITpope
- Marinus van der Lubbeb. 1909NLDutch communist (1909–1934)
- Daniel Marinus Kanb. 1927NLmathematician, prolific contributor to homotopy theory (1927–2013)
- Rinus Michelsb. 1928NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer and manager (1928–2005)
- Willem Breukerb. 1944NLnot in their usual nameDutch musician (1944–2010)
- Mario Beenb. 1963NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
- Marinus Dijkhuizenb. 1972NLDutch footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 137 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marinus?
- We estimate roughly 253 thousand people bear Marinus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marinus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 119 thousand people bear Marinus in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marinus.
- Where is Marinus most common?
- Marinus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 145 people carrying it.
- How common is Marinus compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Marinus is the 31st most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Marinus a male or female name?
- Marinus is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Marinus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marinus” — the 31st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.