Mars is used as a family name or surname in Algeria. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Mars
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Algeria
Meaning: Worn in various regions, is in the North that the surname is most common, and in the Alpes-Maritimes. He rarely speaks in March, although it is not impossible in some cases (child found in March?). Most often, it is a variant of the name Medard, which is found in many places called St. Mars (16 communes in France), but also corresponds to March Marcius or Martius, among other names of a bishop of Clermont. It can also be a place name (3 towns are called Mars), former domain (domain Marcius). A last note the river of Mars, in the Cantal.

How popular is Mars?

Mars is common in Algeria.

Mars is ranked 12796 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Marses plummeted by 3.073182 per cent to 4384 since 2000 and slipped by 730 spots and ranked at 7580. The last name was found in around 15 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 66.54 72.1
Black 24.64 20.67
Hispanic or Latino 4.38 3.18
Others 2.49 1.92
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.12 1.26
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.84 0.86
Mars is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Guyana is ahead in terms of density. Around 41382 people have been found who wears Mars as their family name. Mars is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
28,661 Serbia8
83,411 Czech Republic8
6,940 Japan8
18,563 Nigeria7
1,042 Grenada6
10,202 Egypt5
2,028 Vietnam5
5,779 Uganda4
59,967 Moldova4
2,011 South Korea4
1,647 Fiji3
9,500 Ghana3
761 Brunei3
4,096 Dominican Republic3
70,383 Tanzania3
4,669 Albania3
2,935 Angola3
14,126 Colombia3
3,224 Afghanistan3
23,344 Austria2
12,161 Wales2
4,302 Benin2
5,859 Mauritius2
10,284 Kuwait2
144,523 Kazakhstan2
13,552 Qatar2
5,318 Iraq2
5,300 Syria2
14,004 Hungary2
1,143 French Polynesia2
6,688 Malawi1
2,935 Madagascar1
12,270 Lebanon1
11,510 Oman1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
2,715 Gabon1
14,373 Jordan1
3,586 Honduras1
3,071 Jersey1
10,683 Cyprus1
2,333 Montenegro1
4,435 Togo1
7,110 Bosnia1
799 British Virgin Islands1
24,421 Slovakia1
1,176 Antigua and Barbuda1
32,942 Uzbekistan1
821 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1
7,790 Zambia1
24,460 Armenia1
16,228 Bulgaria1
801 Cape Verde1
1,542 Andorra1
5,924 Paraguay1
9,591 Panama1
3,214 Niger1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
11,510 Denmark49
16,483 Chile45
14,946 New Zealand38
8,504 Ireland33
246,777 Russia33
643 United States Virgin Islands24
1,056 The Bahamas21
3,546 Senegal21
3,830 Luxembourg20
28,338 Norway20
173,579 Ukraine18
5,663 Thailand18
70,910 Zimbabwe11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
12,684 Switzerland90
8,414 Finland85
9,526 Croatia78
10,452 Kyrgyzstan73
6,953 Scotland72
16,172 Peru71
14,658 Israel71
6,628 Portugal65
4,855 Singapore65
4,082 Estonia61
615 Barbados54
Countries with hundreds of Mars:
9,521 Iran921
6,195 Mexico916
16,005 Brazil827
8,696 England758
9,886 Poland621
3,857 Malaysia607
6,345 Saudi Arabia539
14,526 Turkey454
2,225 Sweden450
29,416 Indonesia356
5,855 Sri Lanka326
11,883 Canada325
13,426 Kenya314
29,743 Italy314
473 Guyana300
13,479 Spain256
21,011 Argentina254
11,103 Australia251
93,239 India240
11,099 Romania188
10,721 Belgium171
1,793 Jamaica143
1,311 Trinidad and Tobago142
15,938 Greece123
3,577 Slovenia119
2,019 Hong Kong119
9,004 United Arab Emirates107
Countries with thousands of Mars:
6,924 United States5,549
362 Haiti4,076
2,518 France2,951
5,903 Philippines2,384
3,757 Bangladesh2,063
321 Taiwan1,854
1,108 Netherlands1,843
3,798 Pakistan1,760
2,862 Morocco1,745
4,075 South Africa1,607
6,699 Germany1,412
1,430 Tunisia1,387
5,127 Algeria1,339
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

William Mars worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 40 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Kate Hunter and arrived on March 16, 1850. Pat Mars (19) Workman, Ann Mars, are others that migrated to US.

Comments

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Susan Ledford
Mars is a Ardeche places of origin name, Ardennes, Gard, Loire, nievre place name as the name of Latin man Marcius -in old french, this name means the grain sown in March, producer nickname -can represent weathered a form of popular variant medard, baptismal name from the personal name of Germanic origin madahard, consists of mad respect, reverence and hard hard hard.

Mars Namesakes

    Betty Mars, French singer and actress
  • In 2015 drama movie, Chasing Pavement, Remy Mars portrayed Elijah.
  • Joss Mars, from 2008 comedy and drama film Performance Anxiety, who portrayed Jeff Spencer.

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