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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From the march
  • Old English : Field near water

How Popular Is The Name Marland

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (southern Lancashire) : habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’. There may also have been some confusion with Markland.
  • Dutch : habitational name from Maarland in Eijsden, Dutch Limburg.
  • possibly a variant of Dutch Merlan, from French merlan ‘whiting’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish.

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