Mare
loc · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from mare ‘pond’, ‘pool’, or a habitational name from one of the places in Normandy called La Mare (see Delamar)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mare/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mare is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K
- RORomania≈1 in 19K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maré in ZA South Africa.
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 from mare ‘pond’, ‘pool’, or a habitational name from one of the places in Normandy called La Mare (see Delamar).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mare 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Maré | 68 |
| IT Italy | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Mare | 34 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mare | 27 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 78 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 562 | 1 in 81K | 562 | — | 1 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Mare 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 Latin mare ‘sea’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from the Germanic word mari, meri ‘famous’, ‘renowned’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Portuguese, inflection of marar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, singular optative active of marati (“to die”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, alternative form of mari (“stone”)
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)
- Mare Winninghamb. 1959USAmerican actress
- Marco Hietalab. 1966FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician
- Marko Pantelićb. 1978RSnot in their usual nameSerbian footballer
- Marko Zarorb. 1978CLnot in their usual nameChilean actor
- Marko Šulerb. 1983SInot in their usual nameSlovenian footballer
- Marko Marinb. 1989DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player (born 1989)
- Marko Arnautovićb. 1989ATnot in their usual nameAustrian association football player (born 1989)
- Marko Livajab. 1993HRnot in their usual nameCroatian association football player (born 1993)
- Marko Pjacab. 1995HRnot in their usual nameCroatian association football player
- Marko Grujićb. 1996RSnot in their usual nameSerbian association football player
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 69 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 562 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 78 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mare mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from mare ‘pond’, ‘pool’, or a habitational name from one of the places in Normandy called La Mare (see Delamar). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mare?
- A machine transcription gives /mare/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Mare have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Mare in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maré.
- How common is the name Mare?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 562 people named Mare, about 1 in 81 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/mareThe 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, “Mare”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.