Marr

10,142 people in the United States were counted with the surname Marr in the 2020 census, making it the 3,441st most common in the country. That is about one person in 29,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,142
Rank: 3,441st
How common: 1 in 29,500
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

As a Scottish surname, from the district of Mar in Aberdeenshire, itself named after the clan (see also Clan Mar).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Marr

Nikolai Marr (1865–1934)Georgian ethnologist and linguist
Johnny Marr (born 1963)English musician
Wilhelm Marr (1819–1904)German publicist
Barbara La Marr (1896–1926)American actress and screenwriter
Leslie Marr (1922–2021)British painter and former racing driver
David Marr (1945–1980)British neuroscientist and psychologist
Andrew Marr (born 1959)British journalist

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

Surnames like Marr

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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.