Mark

What Mark means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mark?

US: Falling: down from #196 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #245 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1960, when 58,727 boys got the name (#6 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,206 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,743 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 893 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 AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys), ND (2.38 per 1,000 boys), HI (2.06 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Mark is #244 in the US and #294 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 Mark 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

• Marc162 US · 16 E&W
• Marck10 US

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 Mark

Boys

• Stephen#383“crown, wreath”^*
• Timothy#203“to honour + god”^*
• Paul#262“small”^*
• Michael#21“who is like God?”^*
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Martin#335“of or like Mars”^*

For a sister

• Amanda#493“to love”^*
• Rebecca#349“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Laura#379“laurel tree”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Monica#736Editor’s note Down from #559 in 2015 to #736 in 2025 in the US

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