Mareș

surname · Latin script

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

Mareș is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name from Old French marais ‘marsh’ (Norman and Picard marese), or a habitational name from (Le) Marais in Calvados, Normandy.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 22K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 26K

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)

14,931 people, 2010

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mares in US United States, ES Spain, RO Romania.

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 Old French marais ‘marsh’ (Norman and Picard marese), or a habitational name from (Le) Marais in Calvados, Normandy.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mareș 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 Mareș is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—14,9311 in 22K15KMares31
BR Brazil—6,3701 in 33K6.4K——
CZ Czechia—6,0061 in 1.8K6K——
ES Spain—1,1961 in 42K1.2KMares15
BE Belgium—3551 in 33K355—2
SK Slovakia—2121 in 26K212——
RO Romania#473≈200 est.≈1 in 104K—Mares54

14,931 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)

Mareș is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mares, Mareš, Marés, Marès, Mareş

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Mareş, Mares, Mareś, Mareŝ, Marés

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Romania, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mares, Marès, Marés, Mareš

7 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Alexandru Mareș, b. 1936Nicolae Mareș, b. 1938Radu Mareș, b. 1941Teodora Mareș, b. 1962Mara Mareș, b. 1992George Mareș, 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Mareș mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name from Old French marais ‘marsh’ (Norman and Picard marese), or a habitational name from (Le) Marais in Calvados, Normandy. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mareș have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Mareș, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mares.
Where is Mareș most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mareș is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mareș?
In the United States, the national register counted 14,931 people named Mareș in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
How common is Mareș compared with other names?
In Romania, Mareș is the 473rd most common surname of 78,699 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, “Mareș” — the 473rd most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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