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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : patronymic from the personal name Marino (from the Latin personal name Marinus, of Etruscan origin), but here in the broader sense ‘of or belonging to the Marini family’.
  • Italian : habitational name for someone from a place named Marino or Marini; these are common place names, particularly in central southern Italy.

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