Marin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the French personal name Marin, from Latin Marinus, a derivative of Marius; or 'sailor'

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

/marin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Marin 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.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 126(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 349
  • COColombia≈1 in 388

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

#456 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
407 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 126 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarinLatin(measured from records)
МарьинCyrillic(measured from records)
마린Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are 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)

from the French personal name Marin, from Latin Marinus, a derivative of Marius; or 'sailor'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marin 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 Marin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#33≈130,000 est.≈1 in 3887Marin196
ES Spain#38108,0471 in 463108KMarin223
VE Venezuela#59≈82,000 est.≈1 in 349—Marin99
RO Romania#162≈44,000 est.≈1 in 482—Marin87
US United States#82743,9041 in 7.6K44KMarin407
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).

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

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

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Mariñ, Mar'In, Marin', Marín

  • Catalan surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra, Argentina

    Also written Marín

  • a separate name13 spellings in the group

    Also written Mar'In, Marín, Maŕin, Mărin, Márin

  • Romanian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, United States, Italy

    Also written Mărin, Marîn, Marìn, Mariñ, Marín

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Marín

91 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marin 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.

  • In French, From Latin Marianus, 'of Marius/Mary', or related to the sea (Latin mare).

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Spanish (Marin), French, English, Slovenian, Croatian, and Romanian: from the Latin personal name Marinus, borne by several minor early saints. Originally this was a Roman family name derived from Marius (compare Marie), but was often taken to mean ‘of the sea’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • occupational name for a sailor, Old French marin (Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • habitational name from a place called Marin, in particular the one in Pontevedra, Galicia.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from the personal name Marija or its short form Mara (see Maria).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1850190019502000John Marin, b. 1870Jacques Marin, b. 1919Angel Marin, b. 1942Jack Marin, b. 1944Cheech Marin, b. 1946Andreea Marin, b. 1974Sanna Marin, b. 1985Luca Marin, b. 1986Marko Marin, b. 1989Răzvan Marin, b. 1996

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Marin,Dear Mr Marin, (English)
InformalHola Marin,Hi Marin, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 104 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Marin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—108K#37
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—108K#37
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202044K#768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201044K#784
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—41K#50
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200032K#1,003

Reference works 10

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

How do you pronounce Marin?
A machine transcription gives /marin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Marin mean, and where does it come from?
from the French personal name Marin, from Latin Marinus, a derivative of Marius; or 'sailor' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Marin?
In the etymology graph, Marino, Marinos and Marinier are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Marin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Marin in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marin.
Where is Marin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marin 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 Marin?
In Spain, the national register counted 108,047 people named Marin, about 1 in 463 residents.
How common is Marin compared with other names?
In Colombia, Marin 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, “Marin” — the 33rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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