Given name & surname
Marien
Marien is a surname from Dutch, ultimately from French.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Marien is a variant of Mariane. An origin associated with Mariane is French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1901. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marien through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 204
- 0 boys · 204 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,313 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,313 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 621 as a first name in 2020; 755 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.
Marien’s family of names
In French usage, Marien has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Mariana. Marien has a related form in Mariane.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marien
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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