French and English: topographic name from mare ‘pond’,
‘pool’, or a habitational name from one of the places in Normandy
called La Mare (see Delamar).Italian and Spanish:
topographic name for someone living by the sea, from Latin mare
‘sea’.Dutch (de Mare): nickname from the
Germanic word mari, meri ‘famous’, ‘renowned’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
114,745
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mare
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Mare families were living before
they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival, and destination.
Did the Mares fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.