Dutch and German: metronymic from the personal name
Maria (see Marie).
German: topographic name for
someone who lived by a church named for one of the Marys of the New
Testament: Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, or Mary sister of
Martha.
French and Picard: from the Old French oblique case
of Marie 1.
French: from the masculine personal name
Marien (popularized by the 6th-century St. Marien of Auxerre),
derived from Latin Marianus (see Mariano).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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