Marx
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Karl, German political and economi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marx is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12Mas Maerx
- CHSwitzerland1 in 18K
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 Marx 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)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
11,716 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Karl, German political and economi
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
How Marx is read(measured from records)
Marx is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
Karl, German political and economi
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
contracted form of German Markus
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
theorist; Groucho, Harpo, Chico,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Zeppo, US comedians
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German23%
Verkürzte patronymische Form zu Marcus über Rufname Mark/Merk; teils auch zu ahd. marcha, as. marka 'Grenze' im starken Genitiv; 13623 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronym zu Rufname Marcus; west- und norddeutsch belegt. Varianten: Marxen, Marxsen, Merx.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- French5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marx in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marx 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 | — | 11,716 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Marx | 262 |
| BE Belgium | — | 655 | 1 in 18K | 655 | Marx | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 470 | 1 in 18K | 470 | Marx | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 431 | 1 in 40K | 431 | Marx | 24 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 193 | 1 in 55K | 193 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 181 | 1 in 32K | 181 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 110 | 1 in 31K | 110 | — | — |
| DE Germany | #135 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Marx | 193 |
11,716 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Heinrich Marxb. 1777DElawyer and father of Karl Marx (1777–1838)
- Karl Marxb. 1818DEGerman-born philosopher (1818–1883)
- Eleanor Marxb. 1855GBEnglish writer, translator, activist, and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)
- Wilhelm Marxb. 1863DEGerman politician (1863–1946)
- Chico Marxb. 1887USAmerican comedian (1887–1961)
- Harpo Marxb. 1888USAmerican comedian
- Groucho Marxb. 1890USAmerican comedian (1890–1977)
- Zeppo Marxb. 1901USAmerican film star; member of the Marx Brothers (1901–1979)
- Anne Buydensb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer (1919–2021)
- Richard Marxb. 1963USAmerican singer and songwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #3,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.4K | #3,473 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 655 | #2,234 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 616 | #2,401 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 470 | #2,774 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 431 | #4,601 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 193 | #8,806 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 191 | #5,745 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 181 | #2,851 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 110 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 10
- 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
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Marx mean, and where does it come from?
- Karl, German political and economi Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How common is the name Marx?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,716 people named Marx in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Marx compared with other names?
- In Germany, Marx is the 135th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Marx?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Marx have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Marx, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marx.
- Where is Marx most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marx is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marxThe 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, “Marx” — the 135th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.