Markus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name, from Latin Marcus (see Mark 1)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maʁkʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Markus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Austria it is the 7th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 129(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 133
- DEGermany≈1 in 197
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 Markus 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #541 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 567 (measured from records)
- 1 in 129 (inferred from the name graph)
1,082,739 named Marcos, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marcus in US United States.
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, from Latin Marcus (see Mark 1).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Markus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,082,739as Marcos | 1 in 196 | 1.1M | — | 9 |
| DE Germany | #12 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 197 | — | Markus | 331 |
| US United States | #314 | 184,054as Marcus | 1 in 1.8K | 184K | Marcus | 567 |
| ES Spain | — | 99,544as Marcos | 1 in 502 | 100K | Markus | 92 |
| AT Austria | #7 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 133 | 25K | Markus | 215 |
| FI Finland | #311 | 43,211 | 1 in 129 | 49K | Markus | 82 |
| CH Switzerland | #8 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 239 | 150 | Markus | 182 |
1,082,739 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Markus 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 German, Mark the Evangelist (biblical character).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, Mark the Evangelist.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Markus/Marcus; Schreibvarianten mit k/c, außerdem Nebenformen mit -use, -ussen, -zi usw.; 727 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Lateinnahes Patronym zu Marcus/Markus; die Karte zeigt c/k-Schreibung bei Markus-Formen. Bearer count not stated.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronym zu Rufname Marcus (< lat. Martkos „dem Mars zugehörig, geweiht“); Markus(e) 1996+41, Marcus(e) 474+29.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Markus Wolfb. 1923DEHead of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War (1923–2006)
- Markus Stockhausenb. 1957DEGerman trumpeter, music producer and composer (jazz, classical music)
- Markus Merkb. 1962DEGerman football referee
- Markus Söderb. 1967DEGerman politician (CSU)
- Markus Babbelb. 1972DEGerman association football player and manager
- Markus Anfangb. 1974DEGerman footballer
- Markus Weinzierlb. 1974DEGerman association football player and manager
- Markus Zusakb. 1975AUAustralian author (born 1975)
- Markus Perssonb. 1979SESwedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
- Markus Rosenbergb. 1982SESwedish association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 107 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 49K | #38 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 43K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 25K | #132 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,027 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 766 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 766 | #9,946 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 585 | #4,102 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 497 | #2,118 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 496 | #14,387 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 144 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 55 | #132 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #2,027 |
Reference works 13
- 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
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- 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 Markus mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name, from Latin Marcus (see Mark 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Markus a male or female name?
- Markus 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.
- In which country does Markus have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Marcos, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Markus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Markus is densest in Finland — about 1 in 129 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Markus?
- In Finland, the national register counted 43,211 people named Markus, about 1 in 129 residents.
- How common is Markus compared with other names?
- In Austria, Markus is the 7th most common given name of 26,800 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Markus?
- In the etymology graph, Mark, Marcos and Marco are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Markus?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁkʊs/ (IPA) for German.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/markusThe 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, “Markus” — the 7th most common given name in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.