Mark
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Latin Marcus, perhaps connected with Mars; also person who lives in a border area; or anglicization of similar-sounding Jewish names
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mark 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.
- 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 Mark 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)
- Sources
- 708 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 125 (inferred from the name graph)
1,135,541 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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 Latin Marcus, perhaps connected with Mars; also person who lives in a border area; or anglicization of similar-sounding Jewish names
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mark 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 | 1,135,541 | 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)
Mark is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, (1) from the personal name Mark/Latin Marcus; first attested Rogerus filius Markes 1207 Cur (Ha). (2) from Marck, Pas-de-Calais; first attested Adelolfus de Merc 1086 DB (Ess). (3) 'dweller by the boundary', OE mearc; first attested Simon del Merc 1208 Cur (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, Possibly from Mars; meaning uncertain. International name; modern use in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In German, from Marcus; also from mark- 'boundary, march' in place names and surnames
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from ahd. marka 'boundary'; mixed with marh 'horse'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, from Latin Marcus; related to Mars, the Roman god of war
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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)
- Mark Rothkob. 1903USAmerican painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970)
- Mark Hamillb. 1951USAmerican actor (born 1951)
- Mark Dindalb. 1960USAmerican effects animator and film director (born 1960)
- Baz Luhrmannb. 1962AUnot in their usual nameAustralian writer, director, and producer (born 1962)
- Mark Carneyb. 1965CA24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
- Vin Dieselb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1967)
- Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sangerb. 1968USAmerican former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects (born 1968)
- Mark Wahlbergb. 1971USAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Mark Shuttleworthb. 1973ZASouth African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station
- Wayne Rooneyb. 1985GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer and manager
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 149 sources across 70 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1M | #21 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3K | #427 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #6,012 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.4K | #7,470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #21 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 898 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 890 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 409 | #826 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Mark mean, and where does it come from?
- from Latin Marcus, perhaps connected with Mars; also person who lives in a border area; or anglicization of similar-sounding Jewish names Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Mark a male or female name?
- Mark 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.
- What are other forms of the name Mark?
- In the etymology graph, Marcos, Marco and Marc are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mark 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, where it is most often spelled mark.
- How common is the name Mark?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,135,541 people named Mark in 2020, about 1 in 293 residents.
- How common is Mark compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mark 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/markThe 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, “Mark” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.