Mâr
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mâr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old French mare.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 74K
- ESSpain1 in 2.8K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
17,770 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mar in MA Morocco, TN Tunisia, DZ Algeria and Már in US United States.
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)
From Old French mare.
Sources 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mâr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 17,770 | 1 in 2.8K | 18K | — | 44 |
| US United States | — | 3,060 | 1 in 109K | 5.5K | Már | 60 |
| DZ Algeria | #578 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Mar | 11 |
| TN Tunisia | #393 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mar | 11 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Mar | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 194 | 1 in 53K | 194 | — | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 94 | 1 in 3.7K | 94 | — | — |
17,770 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Mâr is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, soft mutation of bâr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, growl of a dog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-bbn, March
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MÂR interj. Cuvânt care imită mârâitul câinelui.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mâr mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French mare. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 8 other sources.
- Is Mâr a male or female name?
- Mâr is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mâr have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Mâr, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mâr most common?
- Mâr is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mâr?
- In Spain, the national register counted 17,770 people named Mâr, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Mâr compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Mâr is the 393rd most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
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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, “Mâr” — the 393rd most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.