Mar (surname)

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Mar
Origin
Word/nameChinese, Scottish
Meaning
Other names
Variant form(s)
  • Chinese: Ma, Mah
  • Scottish: Marr

Mar is a Chinese and Scottish surname.

Origins

Mar may be a variant spelling of: [1]

Statistics

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, as of 2011 there were 81 people on the island of Great Britain and one on the island of Ireland with the surname Mar. In 1881 there had been 54 people with the surname in Great Britain. [1]

Contents

The 2010 United States Census found 5,375 people with the surname Mar, making it the 6,342nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 4,327 (7,120th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about 13% of bearers of the surname identified as White, 49% as Asian, and 30% as Hispanic. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1693, 1705. ISBN   9780192527479.
  2. ↑ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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