Baby name
Marinalva
/mah · ree · NAHL · vah/
Meaning
“White or bright”
Brazilian compound of Marina and Alva (Latin for white or bright); a regional elaboration favored in the Northeast of Brazil.
How it ages.
Strongly regional and generational; outside Northeastern Brazil it reads as obscure.
The cultural moment.
Concentrated in Northeastern Brazil, peak use in the 1950s-70s.