Marcus

What Marcus means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marcus?

US: Falling: down from #168 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #194 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1984, when 5,996 boys got the name (#57 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,274 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,600 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 614 baby boys in Scotland 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 ND (1.79 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.78 per 1,000 boys), OR (1.59 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Marcus is #258 in the US and #267 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 Marcus were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marcos579 US · 12 E&W
• Markus144 US · 16 E&W
• Marquis99 US
• 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 Marcus

Boys

• Justin#233“just”^*
• Anthony#46“flower”^*
• Victor#209“conqueror”^*
• Paul#262“small”^*
• Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025
• Quinton#973“queen s town”^*

For a sister

• Lauren#401Same root as Laurence, possibly meaning “laurel”^*
• Miranda#654“admirable”^*
• Monica#736Editor’s note Down from #559 in 2015 to #736 in 2025 in the US
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*
• Amanda#493“to love”^*
• Emily#34“rival, emulator”^*

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