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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Croatian (Marinić) and Slovenian (Marinič) : patronymic from the medieval personal name Marin (Latin Marinus; see Marin 1), or metronymic from the female personal name Marina, which is both a feminine form of Marin and a derivative of Marija.

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