Márkos
surname · Latin script
Márkos is a surname 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 the personal name Markos (see Mark) or a shortened form of patronymic derivatives of this, for example Markopoulos, Markakis, or composite names such as Markantonakis ‘son of Mark Anthony’.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 82as Marko(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 84as Marko
- ITItaly≈1 in 114as Marco
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 Márkos 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)
- #34 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 708 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82 (inferred from the name graph)
1,135,541 named Mark, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est., as Marko
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mark in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 1 more, Marko in HR Croatia, FI Finland, RS Serbia and Marcos in BR Brazil.
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 the personal name Markos (see Mark) or a shortened form of patronymic derivatives of this, for example Markopoulos, Markakis, or composite names such as Markantonakis ‘son of Mark Anthony’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Márkos 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #16 | 1,135,541as Mark | 1 in 293 | 1.1M | Mark | 708 |
| BR Brazil | #13 | 1,082,739as Marcos | 1 in 196 | 1.1M | Marcos | 282 |
| PH Philippines | #5 | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | — | Mark | 247 |
| IT Italy | #57 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 114 | 1.3K | Mark | 201 |
| GB United Kingdom | #11 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 125 | 34 | Mark | 476 |
| RS Serbia | #8 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 82 | listed | Marko | 128 |
| HR Croatia | #6 | 50,393as Marko | 1 in 84 | 50K | Marko | 185 |
| FI Finland | #74 | 43,211as Markus | 1 in 129 | 49K | Marko | 80 |
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); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Márkos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ine-pro, horse (Equus ferus caballus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dániel Szentiványi Márkosb. 1637ROHungtarian Unitarian pastor (1637–1689)
- Albert Márkosb. 1878ROwriter (1878–1949)
- Albert Márkosb. 1914HU(1914–1981) composer, teacher
- András Márkosb. 1919NLHungarian sculptor (1919–1972)
- Albert Márkosb. 1944RORomanian violinist (1944–)
- András Márkosb. 1950ROHungarian graphic artist from Romania (1950–2020)
- Tünde Márkosb. 1964RO(1969–)
- Albert Márkosb. 1967RO(1967–) composer, cellist
- Zsolt Berszánb. 1974ROnot in their usual nameRomanian painter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Márkos mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Markos (see Mark) or a shortened form of patronymic derivatives of this, for example Markopoulos, Markakis, or composite names such as Markantonakis ‘son of Mark Anthony’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Márkos 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 Márkos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,135,541 people named Mark in 2020, about 1 in 293 residents.
- How common is Márkos compared with other names?
- In the United States, Márkos is the 16th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1rkosThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Márkos” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.