Mârin

surname · Latin script

Mârin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Latin Marīnus, from marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea”). Mârin is also written Марьин in Cyrillic and 마린 in Korean (Hangul).

  • CRCosta Rica1 in 126(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 280
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 350

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mârin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈190,000 people, est.

#456 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
407 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 126 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Mârin in other scripts: Cyrillic and Korean (Hangul)

(measured from records)
MârinLatin(measured from records)
МарьинMârin in Cyrillic(measured from records)
마린Mârin in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marin in MX Mexico, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 3 more.

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)
Derivation of Mârin: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Mârin
  1. LatinMarīnus(measured from records)
  2. Latin rootmarīnus“of or pertaining to the sea”(measured from records)

From Latin Marīnus, from marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea”).

Cited for this meaning 10

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Mârin is found

(measured from records)

Mârin 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.

Where Mârin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#33≈190,000 est.≈1 in 2787Marin196
MX Mexico#130≈160,000 est.≈1 in 8193.4KMarin207
ES Spain#38108,0471 in 463108KMarin223
VE Venezuela#59≈82,000 est.≈1 in 347—Marin99
RO Romania#162≈48,000 est.≈1 in 399—Marin87
CR Costa Rica#3540,5201 in 12641KMarin114

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mârin under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mârin mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Marīnus, from marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 8 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Mârin?
Mondonomo estimates about 190 thousand people named Mârin in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marin. After it come Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and Romania; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Mârin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mârin is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 126 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mârin?
In Spain, the national register counted 108,047 people named Mârin, about 1 in 463 residents.
How common is Mârin compared with other names?
In Colombia, Mârin is the 33rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mârin” — ranked 109th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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