Marana
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Marana is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 72K
- ESSpain1 in 90K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
554 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Maraña in ES Spain, PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(la DH) sau MARATO (la Calend. Gr. P) ; aramaic : miirana-thit (Brock). I. Mara (Dm ; 57 ; Cat ; C Stef ; Mot ; 16 B VI 81 ; 17 B I 334) etc. ; - doamna lui Mircea cel Batrin. 2. M6ra (17 B 1 354) ; t. (Mus) ; Alarm (16 A III 449). Mardi, 13adea (17 B II 270). Acestca pot fi si din Maria sau Smaranda. Mareilu v. Mar cu 10. Marce, -a, -ni v. Mar cu 6.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marana 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 554 | 1 in 90K | 554 | Maraña | 24 |
| BR Brazil | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 669K | 654 | Marana | 51 |
| US United States | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 367 | Marana | 110 |
| IT Italy | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 233K | listed | — | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 426K | — | Maraña | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | 47 | 1 in 72K | 47 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 45 | 1 in 260K | 45 | — | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 8 | — | 3 |
554 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Marana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Madara
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Giovanni Paolo Maranab. 1642FRItalian writer
- Paolo Tommaso Maranab. 1690Roman Catholic bishop
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 481 | #17,666 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 367 | #59,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 309 | #60,887 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 47 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 45 | #28,303 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,000 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Marana have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 554 people named Marana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maraña.
- Where is Marana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marana is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 554 people named Marana, about 1 in 90 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/maranaThe 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, “Marana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.