In 2025, 93 US girls were named Marin, making it the 2,043rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 136 places from #1,907 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 105 girls named Marin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #837, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 324, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,483 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Marin, making it the 4,975th most common boys’ name of the year, up 13 places from #4,988 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 20 boys named Marin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,389, reached in 1950. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 2008. For comparison, it was #5,436 in 2015 and #2,389 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marin in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 7,106 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,386 babies named Marin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,296 US girls were named Marin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,282 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marin ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #701 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maryn (2,933 babies since 1880), Marion (261,713 babies since 1880), Marian (143,295 babies since 1880) and Maren (13,064 babies since 1880).
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Macedonian, Romanian and Serbian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.