Marinov families are Croats and they are mostly from Sibenik area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and in Sibenik area.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Marinov live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Sibenik (55), Split (55), Zagreb (35), and in Primosten (20) and Primosten Burnji (10) in Sibenik area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1825 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.