Marşan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marşan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Occitan. * (surname): Most prevalent in the Landes department. * (hillock): ND du Marsan (chapel) attested on the Cassini map (1740s).

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 372K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 389K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
182 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marsan in FR France.

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)

Borrowed from Occitan. * (surname): Most prevalent in the Landes department. * (hillock): ND du Marsan (chapel) attested on the Cassini map (1740s).

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marşan 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 Marşan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈1,400 est.≈1 in 50K203Marsan182
US United States4971 in 669K497—81
TR Türkiye≈220 est.≈1 in 372K—Marşan12
IT Italy≈160 est.≈1 in 389Klisted—5
AR Argentina551 in 827K55——
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—3

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marşan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Marsan, Maršán

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria

    Also written Marsan

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Marsan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Marsan

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Marsan

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Marşan 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 Marşan mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Occitan. * (surname): Most prevalent in the Landes department. * (hillock): ND du Marsan (chapel) attested on the Cassini map (1740s). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Marşan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Marşan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marsan.
How common is the name Marşan?
In the United States, the national register counted 497 people named Marşan in 2010, about 1 in 669 thousand residents.

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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, “Marşan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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