Name

Name MARATHON

Between 1980 and 2019 there were 1 birth of Marathon in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Marathon per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Marathon
In Italiano

Nome Marathon

Information about the first name Marathon

The first name Marathon has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name Marathon is the most common is:

Quebec

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 8 letters including 3 vowels and 5 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Marathon

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Marathon : Monthara

Marathon in Japanese ^*

Romaji	marason
Katakana	マラソン
Hiragana	まらそん
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Marathon in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Marathon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn).

Etymology

French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.

Noun

marathon (plural marathons)
A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) road race.
(figurative, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity.
He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹəθən/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/, /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
Hyphenation: Mar‧a‧thon

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹəθən/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/, /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
Hyphenation: mar‧a‧thon

Proper noun

Marathon
A town in Attica, Greece, the site of the victory in 490 BC of heavily outnumbered Athenians against Persians.

Verb

marathon (third-person singular simple present marathons, present participle marathoning, simple past and past participle marathoned)
To run a marathon.
(informal, transitive) To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.
We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.