Marina

Marina is a Latin feminine name derived from the adjective marinus, meaning of the sea or belonging to the sea, itself from mare, the Latin word for sea. It was borne by several early Christian saints, including a fourth-century martyr venerated in both Eastern and Western traditions, which helped spread the name throughout medieval Europe. The name remains widely used across Romance, Slavic, and other European languages with little variation in form, though Mariana and Marine represent closely related variants. Marin serves as a masculine cognate found in Croatian and other South Slavic cultures.