Marlin

At the 2020 census, 4,780 Americans bore the surname Marlin — 6,780th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 62,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,780
Rank: 6,780th
How common: 1 in 62,500
Per 100,000: 1.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.2%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Marlin

Lene Marlin (born 1980)Norwegian musician
Calvin Marlin (born 1976)South African footballer

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

Surnames like Marlin

Also a first name

Marlin has been given to 22,834 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1935. 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.