Märk

surname · Latin script

Meaning: sign

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

Märk 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.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 170
  • USUnited States1 in 293

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 Märk 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 people, 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 125 (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MärkLatin(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)

6 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 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)

sign

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Märk 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 Märk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#161,135,5411 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
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); 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)

Märk is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mark, Márk, Màrk, Mārk, Ḿark

  • a separate given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Mark, Mårk, Márk, Màrk, Mârk

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Mark, Mārk, Marḳ, Márk

  • Thai given name107 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Mark, หมาก, Marc, มาร์ค, มาก

7 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Märk 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 Swedish, imperative of märka

    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)

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)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 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 Märk mean, and where does it come from?
sign Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Märk have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Märk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mark.
How common is the name Märk?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,135,541 people named Märk in 2020, about 1 in 293 residents.
How common is Märk compared with other names?
In the United States, Märk 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, “Märk” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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