Last Name MARION

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Meaning The son of Mary, from the diminutive Mari-on, 'little Mary.' Marion or Marian is now a separate name from Mary, as is Eliza from Elizabeth. The doublet Mary Ann helps to perpetuate the modern idea that Marian is a compound of Mary and Ann.
Origin English, Jewish, Spanish, French, Greek, Irish, Croatian, Haitian, Belgian, Hungarian, Guam

Rank 2,307 (2000 US census) 1,873 (1990 US census)
Count 14,364 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 73.57%, or 10568 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 21.14%, or 3037 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.58%, or 83 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.99%, or 142 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.62%, or 233 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.1%, or 302 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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