Popularity of the last name by country

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Origine of last name

MARY : 1: English: from the Middle English and Old French female personal name Marie Latin <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Maria">Maria</a>. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marrison">Marrison</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marion">Marion</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marriott">Marriott</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Markin">Markin</a>. — Note: It is likely that in the population figure published by the US Census Bureau (which dropped from 2215 in the year 2000 to 1547 in the year 2010) the female personal name Mary of some American bearers is also counted as a surname. Some of these bearers may be from countries such as Indonesia where (hereditary) surnames are not in general use; their personal name was thus registered as a surname only after their immigration to the US.4: French: from a variant of the female personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marie">Marie</a>.2: French: habitational name from any of the places in Saône-et-Loire Seine-et-Marne and Nièvre named Mary from Gallo-Roman Mariacum ‘estate of Marius’.3: French: from a vernacular form of the personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Marius">Marius</a>.

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