Marco
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marco 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.
- ITItaly≈1 in 114(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 221
- RSSerbia≈1 in 82as Marko
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 Marco 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 114 (inferred from the name graph)
1,135,541 named Mark, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Italian/Spanish form of Marcus, from Latin Mars.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marco is read(measured from records)
Marco is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marco in Spanish.
- English13%
A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese12%
landmark, boundary
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Italian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marco in Italian.
- German8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marco in German.
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)
Marco 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 | 1,135,541as Mark | 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 |
| EC Ecuador | #54 | 76,598 | 1 in 221 | 77K | Marco | 105 |
| 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); INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Marco is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Italian/Spanish form of Marcus, from Latin Mars.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
from the personal name Marco, from Latin Marcus (see Mark 1).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From Latin. See }Mark in main dictionary. Also: Marcos.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from the personal name Marc, Latin Marcus (see Marc).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Markusb. 12ILnot in their usual namecredited author of the Gospel of Mark and Christian saint; traditionally identified with John Mark (20-68)
- Marco Polob. 1254ITVenetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
- Harry Kurnitzb. 1908USnot in their usual nameAmerican playwright, novelist, screenwriter (1908-1968)
- Marco Pontecorvob. 1966ITItalian cinematographer and film director
- Marco Rubiob. 1971US72nd United States Secretary of State since 2025
- Marco Leonardib. 1971AUItalian actor (born 1971)
- Marco Materazzib. 1973ITItalian association football player and manager
- Marco Strellerb. 1981CHSwiss footballer
- Marco Reusb. 1989DEGerman association football player (born 1989)
- Marco Asensiob. 1996ESSpanish 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 133 sources across 65 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 208K | #252 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 193K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192K | #171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 107K | #528 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 77K | #19 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.2K | #506 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2K | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1.3K | #31 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 989 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 862 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 674 | #171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 253 | #528 |
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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Marco come from?
- Italian/Spanish form of Marcus, from Latin Mars. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How common is the name Marco?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 76,598 people named Marco in 2024, about 1 in 221 residents.
- How common is Marco compared with other names?
- In the United States, Marco is the 16th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Marco mean?
- In English, A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark.
- What are other forms of the name Marco?
- In the etymology graph, Mark, Marcos and Marc are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marco 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.
- Is Marco a male or female name?
- Marco 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.
- How do you pronounce Marco?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What do you want to know about Marco?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marcoThe 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, “Marco” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.