The mars Surname
mars Name Meaning and History
- English: variant of Marsh.
- French: habitational name from places so named in Ardèche, Ardennes, Gard, Loire, Nièvre, and Meurthe-et-Moselle, from the Latin personal name Marcius, used adjectivally.
- French: from the personal name Meard, Mard, Mart, vernacular forms of the saint’s name Médard. Morlet notes that there are a number of places called Saint-Mars, formerly recorded in Latin as Sanctus Medardus.
- French: from the name of the month, mars ‘ March’, denoting seed sown in March, and hence a metonymic name for an arable grower.
- French (De Mars): habitational name from Mars in the Ardennes.
- Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Marsilius.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| MARS Adelaide SISTER 1891-1983 |
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| Mars Family | Aaron Mars | 44 |
| Ms Mars | Roy Mars | 11 |
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| Mars surname | Sue Meyer | 2 |
| Franklin C. Mars originator of Mars Bars |
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| MARS Eola 1892 1892 dau of J G and D E Mars |
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| MARS Joseph G 1856 1901 |
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