Marien

Family name origins & meanings

• Dutch and German : metronymic from the personal name Maria (see Marie).
• German : topographic name for someone who lived by a church named for one of the Marys of the New Testament: Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, or Mary sister of Martha.
• French and Picard : from the Old French oblique case of Marie 1.
• French : from the masculine personal name Marien (popularized by the 6th-century St. Marien of Auxerre), derived from Latin Marianus (see Mariano).