Marinier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sea; marine
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Marinier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 140Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
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)
- Record sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sea; marine
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marinier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 217 | Marinier | 181 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Marinier | 65 |
| US United States | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 106 | Marinier | 57 |
| AR Argentina | 24 | 1 in 1.9M | 24 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Marinier | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | Marinier | 4 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Marinier is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, marine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, sailor
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)- Paul Marinierb. 1866FRFrench composer (1866-1953)
- Gérard Marinierb. 1899FRracing driver (1899–1937)
- Robert Marinierb. 1954CAplaywright working in Quebec
- Jean-François Marinierb. 1961FRFrench politician
- Bruno-Marie Béchard Marinierb. 1964CACanadian engineer
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 239 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 225 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 217 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 214 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 204 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 190 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 149 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 127 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106 | #152,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Marinier mean, and where does it come from?
- sea; marine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Marinier?
- In the etymology graph, Marin, Marinero and Marinheiro are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marinier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Marinier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marinier.
- How common is the name Marinier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Marinier in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Marinier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marinierThe 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, “Marinier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.