Marre

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: nickname for a stubborn or narrow-minded man, from Old French marre ‘ram’

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

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

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 136K
  • FIFinland1 in 186K

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)

≈2,200 people, est.

Sources
202 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person from Mar, Aberdeenshire, or from Marr, Yorkshire, both place names perhaps meaning 'place by the marsh'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Marre is read(measured from records)

Marre is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French53%

    nickname for a stubborn or narrow-minded man, from Old French marre ‘ram’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    a sort of hoe (gardening tool)

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

  • English17%

    person from Mar, Aberdeenshire, or from Marr, Yorkshire, both place names perhaps meaning 'place by the marsh'

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    Obsolete spelling of mar.

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

  • Spanish13%

    inflection of marrar:

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

  • Hindi5.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Marre in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marre 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 Marre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈2,200 est.≈1 in 31K184Marre202
US United States2261 in 1.5M244Marre68
IN India2091 in 6.3M209—2
BR Brazil1851 in 1.1M185——
AR Argentina1081 in 421K108——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
UY Uruguay251 in 136K25——
NO Norway141 in 391K14——

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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Marre is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marré, Marrè, Marre', Marr'E, Marrē

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Chile, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Marré, Marrè, Märrë, Marrê

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Marré, Marrè

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Marrè, Marré

  • Norwegian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Mårre, Marré, Marrè

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Syria

    Also written Marrè, Màrre, Marré

42 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)

Marre is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, shame

    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)

18001850190019502000Aristide Marre, b. 1823Augustin Marre, b. 1853Henri Marre, b. 1858Albert Marre, b. 1924Jeremy Marre, b. 1943Béatrice Marre, b. 1952Elizabeth Marre, b. 1953Yves Marre, b. 1953Emmanuel Marre, b. 1980

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 34 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Marre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—592#6,109
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941330—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951309—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971290—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921266—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961264—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981254—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020244#83,139
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911234—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000232#76,946
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931230—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010226#83,226

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Marre come from?
person from Mar, Aberdeenshire, or from Marr, Yorkshire, both place names perhaps meaning 'place by the marsh' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What does the name Marre mean?
In French, nickname for a stubborn or narrow-minded man, from Old French marre ‘ram’.
In which country does Marre have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Marre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marre.
How common is the name Marre?
In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Marre in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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