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mar Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Asturian-Leonese, and Catalan: topographic name for someone living by the sea, from mar ‘sea’ (Latin mare).
  2. German: nickname from Middle High German mar(w) ‘tender’, ‘delicate’.
  3. Hungarian (Már): from a short form of the personal name Márkus or Márk, Hungarian forms of Marcus and Mark; or possibly from the personal name Márton, Hungarian form of Martin.
  4. Chinese: variant of Ma.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mar Families in the US in 1920
Number of mar families
 52-102
 18-51
 1-17
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