In Croatia, Marino families are predominantly Croats (from Slatina ), rarely Serbs, and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slatina and Virovitica.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Marino live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are located in only five naselja i to in Slatina (<10), Split (<5), Rijeka (<5), Staro Pracno (<5), and in Betina on the Island of Murter (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.