Family name origins & meanings
- Catalan (Marès, also Marés) : topographic name from Catalan marès ‘by the sea’.
- English (of Norman origin) : topographic name from Old French marais ‘marsh’ (Norman and Picard marese), or a habitational name from (Le) Marais in Calvados, Normandy.
- Dutch : metronymic from the personal name Marie.
- Czech and Slovak (Mareš) : from a derivative of the personal names Marek or Martin.