as a Last Name
- 416
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Maran
Meaning & Origins
French and Romanian (Mǎran): topographic name from an adjective derived from Latin marinus ‘marine’, ‘maritime’. Alternatively, it is said by some authorities to be an altered form of the element maren(c), which occurs in the word cormoran ‘cormorant’, from Latin corvus marinus ‘sea raven’.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 416
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Ohio
- has the most people named Maran per capita
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