Maret

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a pet form of the female personal name Mar(ie) (Marie)

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

/maʀɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maret is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6K
  • BEBelgium1 in 116K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

Sources
227 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a pet form of the female personal name Mar(ie) (Marie).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maret 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 Maret is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈2,700 est.≈1 in 25K400Maret227
CH Switzerland1,1021 in 7.6K1.1KMaret53
US United States4101 in 811K553Maret79
PH Philippines≈240 est.≈1 in 453K—Maret3
DZ Algeria≈190 est.≈1 in 232K—Maret2
BE Belgium1011 in 116K101Maret15

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 noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maret is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Switzerland

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maeret, Máret, Marét, Mârët, Mårēt

  • Spanish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Switzerland, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Máret, Máręt, Mãręt, Mãrèt, Märet

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mârët, Mârêt, Mãreť

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Marèt, Máret

  • Danish name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Märët, Máret, Màřêț, Măřěť

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Mâŕeť

  • Russian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Марет, Марьет, Маре, Марэт, Марё

36 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maret 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 German, weibl. Vom., norwegische und schwe­ dische Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • The earth.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Estonian, a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Malay, March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, March

    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)

1700180019002000Hugues Maret, b. 1726Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, b. 1763Henry Maret, b. 1805Henri Maret, b. 1837Arthur Maret, b. 1892François Maret, b. 1893Georg Maret, b. 1949Marianne Maret, b. 1958Gregoire Maret, b. 1975Cyrille Maret, b. 1987

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Maret, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Maret
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.1K#1,063
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020553#42,249
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000526#39,378
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961494—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951467—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971419—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010410#50,851
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991400—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981378—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941363—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931324—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921323—

Reference works 7

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 Maret?
A machine transcription gives /maʀɛ/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Maret mean, and where does it come from?
from a pet form of the female personal name Mar(ie) (Marie). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Maret?
In the etymology graph, May, Margalit and Mared are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Maret have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Maret in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maret.
Where is Maret most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maret is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Maret?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,102 people named Maret in 2024, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Maret”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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