Marca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: brand (of clothing etc.)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈmaɾ.ka/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Marca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 28K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 84K
- FIFinland1 in 159K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
1,624 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)brand name, mark
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marca is read
(measured from records)Marca 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.
- Spanish72%
brand (of clothing etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.4%
brand name, mark
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
mark; trace (visible impression or sign)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marca in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Marca is found
(measured from records)Marca 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,624 | 1 in 28K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 593 | 1 in 84K | 593 | Marca | 22 |
| US United States | 385 | 1 in 864K | 419 | Marca | 171 |
| CH Switzerland | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | Marca | 13 |
| FI Finland | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 740K | 22 | Marca | 13 |
1,624 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Marca is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, brand, make or trademark (of a commercial product)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, boundary-mark, boundary, limit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to mark (label, distinguish)
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)- Carlo a Marcab. 1803CH(1803-1851)
- Rafael Tasis i Marcab. 1906ESSpanish writer and politician (1906-1966)
- David Marca i Cañellasb. 1928ESSpanish politician
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Marca?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈmaɾ.ka/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ˈmah.kɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- Where does the name Marca come from?
- brand name, mark Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What does the name Marca mean?
- In Spanish, brand (of clothing etc.)
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marca?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Marca, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, United States, Switzerland and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Marca most common?
- Marca is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marca?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,624 people named Marca, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marcaThe 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, “Marca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.