Origin and popularity of the name MARR

Origin

Marr : 1: Scottish: habitational name from the district of Mar in Aberdeenshire an ancient tribal name probably based on a Brittonic personal name Marsos. There may have been confusion with Mair 2.2: English: habitational name from one or other of various places called from Old Norse marr ‘fen marsh’ such as Marr High and Low Marr in Wheldrake and The Marrs in Swine (all Yorkshire).3: German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Marro.4: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 馬 see Ma 1.

Ingmire : 1: English (Kent and London): habitational name from Inglemire in Kingston upon Hull (East Yorkshire) also sometimes known as Igglemire. The placename is probably from Old Norse igli ‘leech’ + marr ‘marsh’ or Old English mere ‘pool’. This surname is now rare in Britain.2: Perhaps an Americanized form of German Engemeyer a topographic name for a tenant farmer who lived in a narrow place i.e. a deep narrow valley from eng ‘narrow’ (see Enge) + Meyer ‘tenant farmer’.

Lamarre : French: habitational name from any of the places in the northern part of France called La Mare from Old French mare ‘pool pond’ (Old Norse marr). Compare Lamar.

Marum : 1: Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farmsteads named Marheimar in Old Norse most likely from marr ‘horse’ + heimr ‘homestead farmstead’.2: Irish: name of unexplained etymology. It is the surname of a distinguished family recorded in Kilkenny since the 1690s and is also found in County Durham England.

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