Márco

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Márco is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Romance Marco (Italian Marco, Portuguese Marco, Spanish Marco).

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 114(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 221
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 82as Marko

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Márco itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,135,541 named Mark, 2020

#34 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
708 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarkLatin(measured from records)
МаркCyrillic(measured from records)
מרקוHebrew(measured from records)
ΜαρκοςGreek(measured from records)
ՄարկArmenian(measured from records)
মার্কBengali(measured from records)
마크Hangul(measured from records)
მარკოGeorgian(measured from records)
මාරකSinhala(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mark in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 1 more, Marko in HR Croatia, FI Finland, RS Serbia, Marcos in BR Brazil and Marco in EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Romance Marco (Italian Marco, Portuguese Marco, Spanish Marco)

Sources 13

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Márco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Márco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#161,135,541as Mark1 in 2931.1MMark708
BR Brazil#131,082,739as Marcos1 in 1961.1MMarcos282
PH Philippines#5≈640,000 est.≈1 in 170—Mark247
IT Italy#57≈550,000 est.≈1 in 1141.3KMark201
GB United Kingdom#11≈530,000 est.≈1 in 12534Mark476
RS Serbia#8≈85,000 est.≈1 in 82listedMarko128
EC Ecuador#5476,5981 in 22177KMarco105
HR Croatia#650,393as Marko1 in 8450KMarko185
FI Finland#7443,211as Markus1 in 12949KMarko80

1,135,541 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Márco is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name98 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Italy

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marco, Marcoe, Marc'O, Marcó, 'Marco

  • Italian given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, France

    Also written Marco, Marcò, 'Marco, Màrcò, Mãrcô

  • Hungarian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Hungary, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Marco, Márcó, Mårcő, Marcó, Marcö

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Márco under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Márco mean, and where does it come from?
From Romance Marco (Italian Marco, Portuguese Marco, Spanish Marco) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 11 other sources.
Is Márco a male or female name?
Márco is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Márco have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Mark, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Márco?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 76,598 people named Márco in 2024, about 1 in 221 residents.
How common is Márco compared with other names?
In the United States, Márco is the 16th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Márco” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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