Mari surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Mari surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,435 people carried this name — #17,952 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 188,700 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,425 people named Mari.

365 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 70 départements, most often Alpes-Maritimes.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 365
Alpes-Maritimes 334
Corsica 169
Essonne 81
Paris 32
Seine-Maritime 31
Bouches-du-Rhône 27
Ille-et-Vilaine 19
Gard 17

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

160 people named Mari live in Switzerland.

They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Ticino 41
Zurich 31
Geneva 20
Vaud 20
Valais 12
Basel-Landschaft 11
Bern 7
Jura 6

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 21 people named Mari live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Antwerp 10
Brussels-Capital 6
East Flanders 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Mari is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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