Marion
Marion is the 2,562nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,755 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,700.
By the numbers
- People
- 13,755
- Rank
- 2,562nd
- How common
- 1 in 21,700
- Per 100,000
- 4.6
Where the name comes from
Origin a matronymic
From Middle English Marion, from Old French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, used in England since the Middle Ages.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Marion described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Marion
- Frances Marion (1888–1973)American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter
- Shawn Marion (born 1978)American basketball player
- Jean-Luc Marion (born 1946)French philosopher
- Charles Marion (1887–1944)French equestrian
- Kitty Marion (1871–1944)actress and political activist, Militant Suffragette
- Francis Marion (1732–1795)American politician, Continental Army officer
- Alain Marion (1938–1998)French flutist
- George Marion, Jr. (1899–1968)screenwriter
People named Marion with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Marion
Also a first name
Marion has been given to 261,713 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.