Last name: MARU

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Last name frequency

MARU : This last name is indexed 5,847 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MARU : 1: Ethiopian: from the personal name Maru which is interpreted as ‘the honey’ in the Amharic language. — Note: Since Ethiopians do not have hereditary surnames this name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.2: Indian (Gujarat): Vaishya Kshatriya and Jain name from Sanskrit maru ‘desert’ referring to the Kutch and Saurashtra regions of Gujarat. This is a traditional surname in the Kumbhkar (potter) community.

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