Maraš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Maraš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’. This element is also found as part of composite names such as Maragiannis ‘crazy John’.
- HRCroatia1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 36K
- PLPoland1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,826 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Montenegro, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Μαρας in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’. This element is also found as part of composite names such as Maragiannis ‘crazy John’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maraš counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 1,826 | 1 in 2.3K | 1.8K | Maraš | 69 |
| US United States | — | 870 | 1 in 382K | 977 | — | 58 |
| PL Poland | — | 699 | 1 in 55K | 363 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 541 | 1 in 84K | 541 | — | 1 |
| ME Montenegro | #110 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Maraš | 12 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Μαρας | 29 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Maraš | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 154 | 1 in 36K | 154 | — | 1 |
1,826 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021, counting the spelling maras. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Vasilije Marašb. 1960SISlovenian military officer
- Ivica Marašb. 1975HRCroatian handball player
- Ivan Marašb. 1986MEMontenegrin basketball player (born 1986)
- Nikola Marašb. 1995RSSerbian footballer
- Mateo Marašb. 2000HRCroatian handball player
- Marija Marašb. 2002MEMontenegrin association football player
- Nenad MarašSIresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 275 | #2,960 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 258 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #201,559 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #231,785 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maraš mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’. This element is also found as part of composite names such as Maragiannis ‘crazy John’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Maraš have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Maraš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maraš.
- How common is the name Maraš?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,826 people named Maraš in 2021, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Maraš compared with other names?
- In Montenegro, Maraš is the 110th most common surname of 2,395 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mara%C5%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maraš” — the 110th most common surname in Montenegro. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.