Marion

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marion is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the female personal name Marion, from Old French 'little Mary'.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 533◐
  • ATAustria1 in 970
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈189K ●

across 10 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
467 ●

1.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 541 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

MarionLatin · English●1.5M records
마리온Hangul · Korean●1 records
ΜάριονGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from the female personal name Marion, from Old French 'little Mary'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Marion is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#110227,411212K rec.——Marion219
GB United Kingdom#247136,075128K rec.——Marion181
FR France—125,365△208 rec.1 in 541125K—13
NL Netherlands#31159,90713K rec.—8.8KMarion95
US United States#35756,1391.4M rec.1 in 5.9K56KMarion467
AU Australia#41842,96142K rec.—69Marion170
CA Canada#39131,54833K rec.—3Marion152
AT Austria#17317,0565.8K rec.—2.7KMarion122
IT Italy#54811,21413K rec.——Marion51
PH Philippines—7,0796.5K rec.——Marion97
RU Russia—4,7635.4K rec.——Marion20
IE Ireland#2363,9954.2K rec.——Marion92

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.5M48%
  • French853K28%
  • German299K10%
  • Spanish97K3%
  • Portuguese50K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,487,80548%
French852,82628%
German299,06710%
Spanish96,9253%
Portuguese49,5622%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marion is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name1.1M records spelled Marion106 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Chile

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Marión, Marïon, Ma-Rion, Màrion, Marìon

  • a separate given name40K records spelled Marion3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Maríon, Marión

  • Polish given name18K records spelled Marion30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Марион, Маріон, Maryon, Мэрион, Мэрыен

  • Thai given name2.4K records spelled Marion11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, Laos, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Marión, มารีออน, มาริออน, มาริอ้อน, มาร์ออน

76 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marion is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Diminutive of Mary; in Ireland used to anglicise Muireann, ‘long-haired’.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, a diminutive of Mary; first attested Marion Lambert 1379 PTY

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In French, French diminutive of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • from a pet form of Marie 1. IJ»l:ld:l=nTClBenjamin Marion, a Huguenot and a native of Poitou, France, came to SC in about 1690. His descendants established themselves in St. John’s Parish, Berkeley Co., SC, and in 1773 they acquired Pond Bluff on the Santee River.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In French, Forme dérivée de Marie; origine hébraïque, « goutte de mer ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K8K1900195020006K · 1924

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Marion in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880189
1881162
1882157
1883184
1884184
1885198
1886273
1887254
1888322
1889331
1890386
1891413
1892497
1893532
1894587
1895856
1896987
1897994
18981,085
1899973
19001,197
1901963
19021,033
19031,042
19041,109
19051,141
19061,183
19071,251
19081,349
19091,445
19101,703
19111,744
19122,522
19132,854
19143,550
19154,456
19165,033
19175,371
19185,583
19195,158
19205,745
19215,814
19225,667
19235,711
19246,047
19255,577
19265,353
19275,211
19285,420
19294,633
19304,305
19313,763
19323,493
19333,199
19342,884
19352,813
19362,580
19372,309
19382,150
19392,069
19402,111
19411,986
19422,152
19432,124
19441,803
19451,602
19461,753
19471,847
19481,592
19491,520
19501,387
19511,339
19521,264
19531,275
19541,337
19551,147
19561,103
19571,055
19581,055
1959921
1960810
1961751
1962773
1963736
1964727
1965567
1966533
1967467
1968434
1969414
1970383
1971361
1972300
1973298
1974266
1975245
1976242
1977229
1978205
1979233
1980204
1981211
1982211
1983176
1984169
1985168
1986164
1987151
1988176
1989152
1990166
1991158
1992174
1993116
1994123
1995108
1996117
1997131
1998135
1999109
2000141
2001120
2002130
2003158
2004138
2005167
2006156
2007146
2008140
2009119
2010124
2011111
2012110
2013140
2014142
2015150
2016159
2017142
2018134
2019139
2020106
2021127
2022121
2023125
2024107
202593

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Marion Davies, b. 1897Paulette Goddard, b. 1910Betty White, b. 1922Georges Lautner, b. 1926Ghislaine Maxwell, b. 1961Marine Le Pen, b. 1968Marion Cotillard, b. 1975Marion Jones, b. 1975Marion Bartoli, b. 1984Marion Maréchal, b. 1989
  • Marion Daviesb. 1897USAmerican actress (1897–1961)
  • Paulette Goddardb. 1910USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1910–1990)
  • Betty Whiteb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and comedian (1922–2021)
  • Georges Lautnerb. 1926FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director and screenwriter (1926-2013)
  • Ghislaine Maxwellb. 1961GBnot in their usual nameBritish socialite and sex trafficker, daughter of Robert Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein
  • Marine Le Penb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (born 1968)
  • Marion Cotillardb. 1975FRFrench actress (born 1975)
  • Marion Jonesb. 1975USAmerican athlete
  • Marion Bartolib. 1984FRFrench tennis player
  • Marion Maréchalb. 1989FRFrench politician (born 1989)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 111 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Marion
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024125K#631
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202056K#666
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202023K#666
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,307
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202014K#2,562
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8.8K#445
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—6.7K#540
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242.7K#771
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.3K#5,497
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.1K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2K#1,055

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,399 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marion?
We estimate roughly 189 thousand people bear Marion (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Marion have the most bearers?
Marion is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled marion.
How common is Marion compared with other names?
In Germany, Marion is the 110th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Marion a male or female name?
Marion is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Marion mean?
Recorded meaning: from the female personal name Marion, from Old French 'little Mary'
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marion” — the 110th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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