Marson
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: variant of the habitational name Marston. The two forms seem to have been used interchangeably (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
/maɾsɔn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Marson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,616 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 140K
- USUnited States1 in 206K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
1,616 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Marson
- Portuguese:/maɾsɔn/(machine-generated) model-generated
- French:/maʁ.sɔ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/maɾson/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of the habitational name Marston. The two forms seem to have been used interchangeably.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Marson is read
(measured from records)Marson is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English58%
variant of the habitational name Marston. The two forms seem to have been used interchangeably.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from places so called in Marne and Meuse, or from Marion in Sarthe.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Portuguese18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marson in Portuguese.
- French8.9%
Marson: A placename
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marson in Spanish.
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 the surname Marson is found
(measured from records)Marson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,616 | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Marson | 57 |
| AR Argentina | 202 | 1 in 225K | 202 | Marson | 36 |
| BE Belgium | 84 | 1 in 140K | 84 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | Marson | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
1,616 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Marson 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 Esperanto, accusative of Marso
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)- Roberto Marsonb. 1944ITItalian Summer Paralympics multisport athlete (1944-2011)
- Ania Marsonb. 1949PLPolish and British actress
- Lou Marsonb. 1986USbaseball 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)Evidence
(measured from records)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marson mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of the habitational name Marston. The two forms seem to have been used interchangeably. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marson?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /maɾsɔn/; in French /maʁ.sɔ̃/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /maɾson/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marson?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Marson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marson. After it come Argentina, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Marson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marson is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,616 people named Marson in 2010, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marsonThe 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, “Marson” — ranked 16859th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.