Marin — #1898 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Marin

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,003 babies named Marin between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marin currently holds the #1898 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 324 babies received it in a single year. Marin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 990 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,212 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Marin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 625 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Marin in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,003 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.