Given name & surname
Marais
Marais is a surname from French. It is used in Afrikaans.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marais through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 431 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marais’s family of names
In English usage, Marais as a surname has a related form in DESMARAIS. In French usage, Marais as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Маре.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marais
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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