Marion Forename
1,122nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 830,052 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Marion Forename Definition:
A female name. Marion was originally a diminutive in -on of Mary (q.v.). It was common in the Middle Ages and later (cf. the surnames Marion, Maryan, Marrian, &c.). The spelling Marian led in the 18th C to the supposition that the name was really Mary + Anne, and Mary Ann was the first and chief of the double names which were so common then and in the early 19th C (e.
Read More About This ForenameMarion Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 63% | 279,004 | 1:347 | 98 |
| United States | 77% | 196,418 | 1:1,846 | 368 |
| France | 100% | 62,942 | 1:1,056 | 189 |
| England | 100% | 59,354 | 1:937 | 208 |
| Kenya | 100% | 45,333 | 1:1,021 | 213 |
| Netherlands | 94% | 28,886 | 1:585 | 121 |
| Canada | 100% | 24,721 | 1:1,340 | 305 |
| Scotland | 100% | 16,653 | 1:321 | 77 |
| Uganda | 99% | 15,870 | 1:2,581 | 362 |
| Austria | 84% | 10,894 | 1:782 | 169 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 8,197 | 1:865 | 200 |
| Australia | - | 6,794 | 1:2,010 | 384 |
| Philippines | 67% | 6,585 | 1:16,099 | 1,824 |
| South Africa | 98% | 6,130 | 1:8,896 | 1,561 |
| Wales | 100% | 4,443 | 1:696 | 167 |
| Ireland | 96% | 4,419 | 1:1,051 | 197 |
| Switzerland | 77% | 4,392 | 1:1,870 | 373 |
| Chile | 100% | 3,789 | 1:4,647 | 488 |
| New Zealand | - | 3,629 | 1:1,250 | 297 |
| Brazil | 58% | 2,878 | 1:74,439 | 4,604 |
| Belgium | 83% | 2,117 | 1:5,428 | 783 |
| Norway | 100% | 1,859 | 1:2,761 | 442 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,854 | 1:1,555 | 376 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,677 | 1:105,882 | 5,860 |
| DR Congo | 90% | 1,506 | 1:49,022 | 3,201 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,505 | 1:46,555 | 5,129 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1,502 | 1:1,227 | 238 |
| Indonesia | - | 1,195 | 1:215,869 | 20,484 |
| Congo | 75% | 1,159 | 1:4,322 | 671 |
| Ghana | - | 1,124 | 1:24,009 | 1,692 |
| Sweden | 99% | 862 | 1:11,436 | 963 |
| Denmark | - | 855 | 1:6,608 | 676 |
| Liberia | 99% | 832 | 1:5,303 | 619 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 816 | 1:37,760 | 4,574 |
| Malawi | 94% | 804 | 1:21,284 | 1,901 |
| Morocco | - | 792 | 1:43,369 | 1,922 |
| Egypt | 100% | 759 | 1:121,082 | 5,236 |
| Mexico | 95% | 756 | 1:164,212 | 3,245 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 741 | 1:14,077 | 1,471 |
| Cameroon | 97% | 685 | 1:31,548 | 2,402 |
| Spain | 100% | 659 | 1:70,607 | 2,420 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 643 | 1:877 | 186 |
| Zambia | - | 605 | 1:26,206 | 2,059 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 572 | 1:36,362 | 4,240 |
| Israel | 93% | 537 | 1:15,648 | 1,656 |
| Venezuela | 70% | 502 | 1:60,163 | 3,306 |
| Malta | - | 460 | 1:933 | 204 |
| New Caledonia | 83% | 438 | 1:617 | 143 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 82% | 437 | 1:3,115 | 589 |
| Italy | 89% | 420 | 1:145,386 | 2,343 |
| Suriname | 89% | 411 | 1:1,345 | 288 |
| Barbados | - | 395 | 1:734 | 170 |
| Mali | 100% | 387 | 1:43,870 | 2,498 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 367 | 1:434,500 | 16,631 |
| Estonia | 84% | 360 | 1:3,654 | 635 |
| Zimbabwe | 84% | 355 | 1:43,447 | 3,926 |
| Peru | 94% | 337 | 1:94,337 | 3,478 |
| Solomon Islands | 54% | 328 | 1:1,771 | 320 |
| Papua New Guinea | 85% | 324 | 1:25,161 | 2,494 |
| Portugal | - | 323 | 1:32,232 | 1,307 |
| Gabon | 67% | 321 | 1:5,867 | 1,120 |
| Argentina | 95% | 269 | 1:159,008 | 2,259 |
| India | 88% | 264 | 1:4,601,810 | 181,147 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 261 | 1:202,254 | 8,398 |
| Bahamas | - | 237 | 1:1,685 | 392 |
| Greece | 61% | 229 | 1:47,749 | 1,701 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 200 | 1:189 | 45 |
| Poland | 75% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Malaysia | 89% | 187 | 1:162,834 | 9,957 |
| Colombia | 89% | 181 | 1:263,972 | 5,430 |
| Belize | 88% | 178 | 1:1,990 | 451 |
| Fiji | - | 173 | 1:5,158 | 1,243 |
| Jersey | 100% | 149 | 1:671 | 161 |
| Haiti | 76% | 143 | 1:75,014 | 4,564 |
| Lebanon | 94% | 135 | 1:41,686 | 2,166 |
| French Polynesia | - | 119 | 1:2,335 | 505 |
| Bolivia | 92% | 118 | 1:89,842 | 2,431 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 109 | 1:1,007 | 204 |
| Namibia | - | 107 | 1:22,469 | 1,956 |
| Bahrain | - | 104 | 1:12,968 | 2,016 |
| Ecuador | - | 104 | 1:170,451 | 3,186 |
| Uruguay | 87% | 103 | 1:33,278 | 1,446 |
| Guyana | 95% | 101 | 1:7,557 | 1,235 |
| Costa Rica | 94% | 100 | 1:47,679 | 2,160 |
| Czechia | 90% | 100 | 1:106,562 | 1,179 |
| Finland | 94% | 100 | 1:54,832 | 1,778 |
| Bermuda | - | 94 | 1:690 | 133 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 93 | 1:914 | 135 |
| China | - | 89 | 1:15,348,941 | 60,042 |
| Panama | 68% | 81 | 1:48,229 | 3,269 |
| Albania | 96% | 78 | 1:39,059 | 3,922 |
| Russia | 84% | 74 | 1:1,949,104 | 13,269 |
| Singapore | 71% | 74 | 1:84,960 | 7,205 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 72 | 1:99,333 | 7,939 |
| Guatemala | 75% | 67 | 1:240,424 | 3,270 |
| Kuwait | - | 66 | 1:57,352 | 4,703 |
| Japan | - | 64 | 1:1,999,782 | 19,682 |
| Nicaragua | 96% | 61 | 1:98,661 | 3,468 |
| Iraq | 89% | 58 | 1:603,756 | 6,195 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 53 | 1:1,875 | 402 |
| Hungary | 100% | 50 | 1:195,835 | 1,048 |
| Aruba | - | 46 | 1:2,256 | 469 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 44 | 1:132 | 26 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 44 | 1:2,536 | 490 |
| Guernsey | - | 42 | 1:1,508 | 269 |
| Hong Kong | - | 39 | 1:198,788 | 3,264 |
| Cyprus | 75% | 35 | 1:24,888 | 1,441 |
| Guam | - | 35 | 1:4,590 | 836 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 94% | 34 | 1:1,614 | 377 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 32 | 1:2,896 | 621 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 31 | 1:233,445 | 3,488 |
| Afghanistan | 80% | 29 | 1:1,124,949 | 13,124 |
| Croatia | 90% | 29 | 1:145,416 | 2,989 |
| Benin | 70% | 28 | 1:377,709 | 14,020 |
| Honduras | 94% | 28 | 1:314,910 | 5,903 |
| Ivory Coast | 50% | 28 | 1:824,140 | 25,997 |
| Monaco | 80% | 28 | 1:1,374 | 295 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 26 | 1:1,202 | 282 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 26 | 1:2,358 | 517 |
| Qatar | 69% | 26 | 1:91,139 | 11,761 |
| Madagascar | - | 25 | 1:945,176 | 2,170 |
| Mozambique | - | 25 | 1:1,089,734 | 1,713 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 22 | 1:1,578 | 368 |
| Andorra | - | 20 | 1:4,144 | 399 |
| Turkey | 100% | 19 | 1:4,094,827 | 20,430 |
| Cook Islands | 100% | 18 | 1:1,008 | 164 |
| Botswana | - | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Sudan | - | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| American Samoa | - | 14 | 1:3,989 | 735 |
| Grenada | 89% | 14 | 1:7,723 | 1,094 |
| South Korea | - | 14 | 1:396,030 | 11,136 |
| Oman | 100% | 13 | 1:316,051 | 4,191 |
| Tunisia | - | 13 | 1:52,069 | 2,652 |
| Bulgaria | 67% | 12 | 1:582,532 | 8,434 |
| El Salvador | - | 12 | 1:528,482 | 4,653 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 12 | 1:204,896 | 3,859 |
| Greenland | - | 10 | 1:5,637 | 682 |
| Romania | 100% | 10 | 1:2,005,198 | 23,363 |
| Saint Lucia | 89% | 10 | 1:17,782 | 1,938 |
| Senegal | 75% | 10 | 1:1,458,136 | 11,437 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 10 | 1:2,376,968 | 55,480 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Vanuatu | - | 9 | 1:29,088 | 709 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 8 | 1:2,034,166 | 23,777 |
| Curaçao | - | 8 | 1:19,475 | 726 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 8 | 1:6,141 | 867 |
| Iceland | - | 8 | 1:45,752 | 2,854 |
| Jordan | 100% | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 7 | 1:902 | 214 |
| Vietnam | - | 7 | 1:13,231,873 | 4,411 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 6 | 1:591,717 | 4,217 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 5 | 1:3,675,894 | 52,713 |
| Georgia | - | 5 | 1:747,693 | 11,698 |
| Micronesia | - | 5 | 1:21,300 | 626 |
| Palestine | 100% | 5 | 1:910,012 | 3,841 |
| Slovakia | 60% | 5 | 1:1,062,013 | 3,906 |
| Angola | - | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 3 | 1:432,595 | 7,262 |
| Moldova | - | 3 | 1:1,187,046 | 5,200 |
| Nauru | 67% | 3 | 1:3,976 | 333 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Mauritania | - | 2 | 1:2,047,620 | 19,390 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 1 | 1:2,324 | 291 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Marión (29), Márion (3), Märion (1) & Mariôn (1) are calculated separately.
Marion (50,736) may also be a surname.
Marion Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Marion was originally a diminutive in -on of Mary (q.v.). It was common in the Middle Ages and later (cf. the surnames Marion, Maryan, Marrian, &c.). The spelling Marian led in the 18th C to the supposition that the name was really Mary + Anne, and Mary Ann was the first and chief of the double names which were so common then and in the early 19th C (e.g. Mary Jane, Jane Ann). The French Marianne, a later diminutive of Marie, is also sometimes used in England.
Marion Yorks Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379, Feudal Aids 1402.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
The more English, and in mid C19-20, the more general form of Marian, q. v. Also, occasionally m., as in Francis Marion Crawford, the Italianate American novelist (1854-1909).
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A diminutive of Mary.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Hebrew (feminine) - Bitterness.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Marion Forename Popularity
Marion Demographics
Marion Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 43,927 (2014)
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Marion Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Marion in the Russian language | ||
| Марион | marion | - |
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