Merin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: possibly a variant of Marin (see Marin), or in some cases perhaps a habitational name from one of the places in Galicia named Merm (A Coruna and Pontevedra provinces)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɹin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 95K
- ESSpain1 in 95K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
possibly a variant of Marin (see Marin), or in some cases perhaps a habitational name from one of the places in Galicia named Merm (A Coruna and Pontevedra provinces).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merin 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Merin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Mere, a pet form of the personal name of Miryam (see Mirkin).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, Merin Kizlei, craftsman. 1545.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Finnish, instrumental plural of meri
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)
- Eda Reiss Merinb. 1913USAmerican actress (1913–1998)
- Saul Merinb. 1933ILIsraeli Ophthalmologist (1933–2012)
- Chaim Merinb. 1948ILIsraeli screenwriter and playwright
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 524 | #7,703 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 524 | #7,693 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 74 | #3,618 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #33,998 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Merin mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly a variant of Marin (see Marin), or in some cases perhaps a habitational name from one of the places in Galicia named Merm (A Coruna and Pontevedra provinces). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Merin?
- A machine transcription gives /məɹin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Merin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Merin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merin.
- How common is the name Merin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 524 people named Merin, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merinThe 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, “Merin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.