Maren
given name · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a watercourse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmaːʁən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maren is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Georgia it is the 48th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 814(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.4K
- GEGeorgia1 in 151as მარინე
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maren itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- 1 in 814 (inferred from the name graph)
222,695 named Marina, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marine in FR France, ES Spain, GE Georgia.
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 for someone who lived by a watercourse. Middle Dutch mare, or a habitational name from a place named Maren or Maar, from this word.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Maren, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maren 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 222,695as Marina | 1 in 951 | 223K | — | 3 |
| FR France | #115 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 588 | 119K | Marine | 417 |
| ES Spain | #889 | 99,167as Marina | 1 in 504 | 108K | Marine | 53 |
| US United States | — | 72,807as Marina | 1 in 4.6K | 73K | Maren | 325 |
| DE Germany | #375 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Maren | 198 |
| GE Georgia | #48 | 26,488as მარინე | 1 in 151 | 26K | Marine | 42 |
| HR Croatia | — | 23,604as Marina | 1 in 179 | 24K | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 21,989as Marina | 1 in 153 | 22K | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | 8,884as Marina | 1 in 212 | 8.9K | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | #233 | 6,720 | 1 in 814 | 23K | Maren | 93 |
222,695 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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)
Maren 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.
Possibly an altered spelling of Irish Marron.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Latin; sea
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, a former village and former municipality of Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, a female given name, a diminutive of Maria
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)
- Maren Kroymannb. 1949DEGerman actress, cabaret artist and singer
- Maren Jensenb. 1956USAmerican former model and actress
- Maren Meinertb. 1973DEGerman football coach and former player (born 1973)
- Maren Eggertb. 1974DEGerman actress
- Maren Adeb. 1976DEGerman film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1976)
- Maren Mjeldeb. 1989NONorwegian association football player
- Maren Morrisb. 1990USAmerican country singer
- Maren Skjøldb. 1993NONorwegian alpine skier
- Maren Lundbyb. 1994NONorwegian ski jumper
- Maren Aardahlb. 1994NONorwegian handball 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 23K | #193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,411 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 6.7K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,099 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #1,178 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 654 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 248 | #3,538 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 93 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #43,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 87 | #2,411 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 23 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 20 | #62,990 |
Reference works 6
- 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
- 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
- How do you pronounce Maren?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaːʁən/ (IPA) for German.
- What are other forms of the name Maren?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Marina and Marine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Maren a male or female name?
- Maren is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Maren mean?
- Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a watercourse.
- Where does the name Maren come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a watercourse. Middle Dutch mare, or a habitational name from a place named Maren or Maar, from this word. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Maren have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 223 thousand people named Marina, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maren is densest in Norway — about 1 in 814 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maren?
- In Norway, the national register counted 6,720 people named Maren in 2025, about 1 in 814 residents.
- How common is Maren compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Maren is the 48th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marenThe 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, “Maren” — the 48th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.