Marum
loc · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from either of two farmsteads named Marheimar in Old Norse, most likely from marr ‘horse’ + heimr ‘homestead’, ‘farmstead’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Marum is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from either of two farmsteads named Marheimar in Old Norse, most likely from marr ‘horse’ + heimr ‘homestead’, ‘farmstead’ .
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marum counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 541 | Marum | 56 |
| US United States | — | 240 | — | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 202 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 19 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marum is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, I do not know the origin of this name: Carrigan in his 'Diocese of Ossory' says it is Irish— Ó Marum which appears conjectural. The family settled in Co. Kilkenny about 1690 and among its distinguished members was Dr. Kieran Marum, Bishop of Ossory
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Latin, A kind of plant, cat thyme Teucrium marum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative/instrumental plural of mār
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Martinus van Marumb. 1750NLscientist from the Northern Netherlands (1750-1837)
- Kyran Marumb. 1770Roman Catholic bishop
- Edward Marumb. 1822GBBritish politician
- Sophie Marumb. 1870DEHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Ludwig Marumb. 1882DEGerman Jewish politician murdered by Nazis (1882-1934)
- Thekla Sternb. 1893not in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1893-10-03
- Alice Marumb. 1894CZholocaust victim, b. 1894-09-16
- Michael Marumb. 1973PGPapua New Guinean rugby league footballer, coach and administrator
- Mads Marumb. 1998NObadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 541 | #15,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 240 | #84,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 202 | #7,778 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #24,565 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #78,829 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marum mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from either of two farmsteads named Marheimar in Old Norse, most likely from marr ‘horse’ + heimr ‘homestead’, ‘farmstead’ . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Marum have the most bearers?
- Marum is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled marum.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marumThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.