Marin Family History
- Marin Name Meaning
- 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’. Italian (Venetia): variant of Marino. Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian: from the personal name Marija or its short form Mara (see Maria). Galician and Spanish: habitational name from a place called Marín, in particular the one in Pontevedra, Galicia. French: occupational name for a sailor, Old French marin (Late Latin marinus, a derivative of mare ‘sea’). Asturian-Leonese (Marín): occupational name for a sailor in Asturies.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 755,623 Historical Documents with Marin on Ancestry
- 594,359 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 70,396 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,146 Military Records
- 26,865 Immigration Records
- 55,857 Member Trees
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Number of Marin families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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53 - 104 18 - 52 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 33
- Confederate
- 12
- Union
- 21
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