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marin Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish (Marín), French, English, Slovenian, Croatian, and Romanian: from the Latin personal name Marinus, borne by several minor early saints. Originally this was a Roman family name derived from Marius (compare Marie), but was often taken to mean ‘of the sea’.
  2. Italian (Venetia): variant of Marino.
  3. Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian: from the personal name Marija or its short form Mara (see Maria).
  4. Galician and Spanish: habitational name from a place called Marín, in particular the one in Pontevedra, Galicia.
  5. French: occupational name for a sailor, Old French marin (Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’).
  6. Asturian-Leonese (Marín): occupational name for a sailor in Asturies.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of marin Families in the US in 1920
Number of marin families
 35-68
 12-34		 1-11
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Yugoslavian Marin Joan 1
does anyone know where the last name Marin originted from? Jorge Marin 10
Marin's from Michoacan mwolf06 0
Ruby Marin HeyRed 0
Severo O. Marin dbest040503 0
Cesario Marin-Rivera Manuel Marin 6
Marin in Vicenza, Italy TatianaMarin1976 0
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Meaning of Marin ? l80dragon 4
Jaime Luis MARIN , 1928 - 2006, obit LorraineGilmer02 0
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