Mar (surname)
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Mar is a Chinese and Scottish surname.
Origins
Mar may be a variant spelling of:[1]
- Mǎ (馬), a Chinese surname meaning "horse"
- Marr, a Scottish surname that originated as a habitational surname, from Marr in Aberdeenshire
Statistics
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, as of 2011 there were 81 people on the island of Great Britain and one on the island of Ireland with the surname Mar. In 1881 there had been 54 people with the surname in Great Britain.[1]
The 2010 United States Census found 5,375 people with the surname Mar, making it the 6,342nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 4,327 (7,120th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about 13% of bearers of the surname identified as White, 49% as Asian, and 30% as Hispanic.[2]
Notable people
- Kathy Mar (born 1951), American guitarist
- Eric Mar (born 1962), American politician of Chinese descent
- Gary Mar (born 1962), Canadian businessman of Chinese descent
- Curtis Mar (born 1967), Fijian lawn bowler
- Sabrina Mar (born c. 1970), American gymnast of Chinese descent
- Marcela Mar (born Marcela Gardeazabal Martínez, 1979), Colombian actress
- Karmen Mar (born 1987), Slovenian chess player
- Alex Mar, American writer of Cuban and Greek descent
- Gary R. Mar, American philosopher
- Gordon Mar, American politician
- Halldor Mar, Icelandic songwriter
gollark: It seems that you explicitly suggested it was good because it gave more power to rural people than they would otherwise get based on population.
gollark: According to my badness determination metrics.
gollark: What I am saying is that deliberately designing an electoral system and then messing with it so that a particular group consistently gets outsized amounts of power is bad, and that it isn't particularly justified based on "cultural differences" because there are lots of culturally different groups.
gollark: There are cultural differences based on different factors, though.
gollark: There are divisions other than rural/city. Why pick that one and muck with the system to favour one side of it?
References
- Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1693, 1705. ISBN 9780192527479.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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