Mar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Germanic *marah 'horse', or ahd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 12K
- ISIceland1 in 3.7K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marr in US United States and Mar' in ID Indonesia.
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 Germanic *marah 'horse', or ahd. mari 'sea', or Germ. *mēri 'famous, splendid'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mar 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Mar 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.
topographic name for someone living by the sea, from mar ‘sea’ (Latin mare).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from Middle High German mar(w) ‘tender’, ‘delicate’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short form of the personal name Markus or Mark, Hungarian forms of Marcus and Mark; or possibly from the personal name Mdrton, Hungarian form of Martin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
sailor
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Alexander Ramsay of Marb. 1919GBOnly child of HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught (1919-2000)
- Ma Do-Sikb. 1944KRnot in their usual nameactor
- Ma Kwang-soob. 1951KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean poet, novelist, and scholar (1951–2017)
- Mar Carrerab. 1964ESSpanish actress
- Marcos Benjamin Leeb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Yoo Da-inb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Ma Jae-Yoonb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean electronic sports player
- Ma Sang-hoonb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player (1991-)
- Ma Se-geonb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean fencer
- Mar HershensonESAmerican electrical engineer and entrepreneur
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)
Attested in 83 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #6,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,120 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 168 | #18,842 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 168 | #18,768 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Mar mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Germanic *marah 'horse', or ahd.
- Where does the name Mar come from?
- from Germanic *marah 'horse', or ahd. mari 'sea', or Germ. *mēri 'famous, splendid' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Mar?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Mar in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mar'.
- Where is Mar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mar is densest in Spain — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 17,770 people named Mar, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marThe 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, “Mar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.