Marcos

What Marcos means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Marcos yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #408 in 2015 to #516 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marcos?

US: Falling: down from #408 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1442 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2001, when 1,415 boys got the name (#240 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 2,950 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NE (0.79 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.77 per 1,000 boys), CA (0.68 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Marcos is #516 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Marcos were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marcus1,341 US · 170 E&W
• Markus144 US · 16 E&W
• Markos18 US · 5 E&W
• Markis7 US
• Markas0 US · 7 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Marcos

Boys

• Luis#144Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Marco#370Italian, from Latin Mārcus, meaning “pertaining to Mars”^*
• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Alejandro#195“defender of man”^*
• Jesus#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2004, with 6,472 babies; 2,078 in 2025
• Javier#274Spanish, from Basque Xabier, meaning “the new house”^*

For a sister

• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Alejandra#604Same root as Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Angelica#707Italian, meaning “angelic”^*
• Carmen#389Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 2,440 babies; 798 in 2025
• Ana#245Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Marcos’s. Rank is US 2025.