Marien
given name · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a church named for one of the Marys of the New Testament: Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, or Mary sister of Martha
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maɾjen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marien is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 536K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 33K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,300 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
topographic name for someone who lived by a church named for one of the Marys of the New Testament: Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, or Mary sister of Martha.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marien 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,300 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Marien | 54 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 2 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 815 | — | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Marien | 30 |
| US United States | — | 621 | 1 in 536K | 755 | Marien | 172 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 549 | 1 in 52K | 549 | — | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #641 | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Marien | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | — | — |
1,300 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Marien is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
4. French: from the masculine personal name Marien (popularized by the 6th-century St. Marien of Auxerre), derived from Latin Marianas (see Mariano).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
metronymic from the personal name Maria (see Marie).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the Old French oblique case of Marie
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, marine, relating to the sea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du nom latin Marianus, dérivé de Marius.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Conselmanb. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter (1896–1940)
- Marien Leschib. 1903FRFrench soldier and radio pioneer
- Marien de Jongeb. 1911NLDutch military personnel and Engelandvaarder (1911-2012)
- Marien van Staalenb. 1947NLDutch conductor and cellist
- Marien Schoutenb. 1956NLDutch painter (born 1956)
- Marien Moreaub. 1983FRFrench volleyball player
- Marien de la Asuncionb. 1989FRFrench ice dancer
- Marien Defalvardb. 1992FRFrench writer
- Marien AugendreFRFrench Righteous Among the Nations
- Marien JongewaardNLDutch theatrical director and choreographer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Marien mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a church named for one of the Marys of the New Testament: Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, or Mary sister of Martha. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marien?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾjen/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Marien a male or female name?
- Marien is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Marien have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Marien, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marien.
- Where is Marien most common?
- Marien is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marien?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,300 people named Marien, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Marien compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Marien is the 641st most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marienThe 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, “Marien” — the 641st most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.