Mar

At the 2020 census, 5,494 Americans bore the surname Mar — 6,020th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 54,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,494
Rank: 6,020th
How common: 1 in 54,400
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 50.8%
Hispanic or Latino 29.8%
White, not Hispanic 10.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Mar

José de La Mar (1778–1830)President of Peru

People named Mar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mar

Also a first name

Mar has been given to 1,188 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.