Marden
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Marden, one of several English places meaning 'enclosed settlement in Maund', 'place in the boundary valley', or 'woodland pasture where mares are kept'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 104K
- USUnited States1 in 140K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
2,375 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Marden, one of several English places meaning 'enclosed settlement in Maund', 'place in the boundary valley', or 'woodland pasture where mares are kept'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marden 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,375 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Marden | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 69K | listed | Marden | 12 |
| AU Australia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 1 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 315K | 1 | Marden | 6 |
| BR Brazil | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 1.5K | Marden | 82 |
| PT Portugal | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Marden | 5 |
| FI Finland | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 15 | — | — |
2,375 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Marden 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 English, from Marden (He, K, W), or East, North, Up Marden (Sx); first attested Walter de Mahurdin 1204 P (He)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places so called, which have a number of different origins.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, "destruction/day."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Maltese, spindle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- George A. Mardenb. 1839USAmerican politician (1839–1906)
- Orison Swett Mardenb. 1848USAmerican writer (1848-1924)
- Morris Mardenb. 1905USAmerican mathematician
- Adrienne Mardenb. 1909USAmerican actor, stage actor and film actor (1909-1978)
- Luis Mardenb. 1913USAmerican photographer and explorer (1913–2003)
- Ben Mardenb. 1927GBEnglish footballer (1927-2000)
- Richard Mardenb. 1928GBBritish film editor
- Albert Mardenb. 1934USAmerican mathematician
- Brice Mardenb. 1938USAmerican painter (1938-2023)
- Anne Mardenb. 1958USAmerican rower
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,846 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 219 | #34,145 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Marden mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Marden, one of several English places meaning 'enclosed settlement in Maund', 'place in the boundary valley', or 'woodland pasture where mares are kept' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Marden?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Marden have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Marden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marden.
- How common is the name Marden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,375 people named Marden in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mardenThe 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, “Marden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.