Marcos

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: Mark (one of the seventy disciples)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marcos 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.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 196(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 82as Marko
  • HRCroatia1 in 84as 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 Marcos 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)

1,135,541 named Mark, 2020

#34 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
708 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 196 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarkLatin(measured from records)
МаркCyrillic(measured from records)
מרקוHebrew(measured from records)
ΜαρκοςGreek(measured from records)
ՄարկArmenian(measured from records)
মার্কBengali(measured from records)
마크Hangul(measured from records)
მარკოGeorgian(measured from records)
මාරකSinhala(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mark in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 1 more and Marko in HR Croatia, FI Finland, RS Serbia.

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 Marcos (see Mark 1).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Marcos is read(measured from records)

Marcos is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Portuguese45%

    Mark (one of the seventy disciples)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish43%

    Mark

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Del latín Marcus, derivado de Marte/Mars; nombre ligado al dios de la guerra.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English5.9%

    A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Mark.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

Marcos 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.

Where Marcos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#161,135,541as Mark1 in 2931.1MMark708
BR Brazil#131,082,7391 in 1961.1MMarcos282
PH Philippines#5≈640,000 est.≈1 in 170—Mark247
IT Italy#57≈550,000 est.≈1 in 1141.3KMark201
GB United Kingdom#11≈530,000 est.≈1 in 12534Mark476
RS Serbia#8≈85,000 est.≈1 in 82listedMarko128
HR Croatia#650,393as Marko1 in 8450KMarko185
FI Finland#7443,211as Markus1 in 12949KMarko80

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marcos is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Marco'S, Märcös, Márcos, Marcós, Marcös

  • English given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mářćóŝ, Mäřcös, M̷a̷r̷c̷o̷s̷, Márcós, Māřčôš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Márcos, Marco-S

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Also written Marco'S

83 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marcos is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from the personal name Marcos (see Mark 1).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • smith's hammer

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

190019502000Fernando Belaúnde, b. 1912Marcos Pérez Jiménez, b. 1914Marcos Alonso Peña, b. 1959Marcos Pontes, b. 1963Cafu, b. 1970Marcos Rojo, b. 1990Marcos Acuña, b. 1991Marquinhos, b. 1994Marcos Llorente, b. 1995Juan Foyth, b. 1998
  • Fernando Belaúndeb. 1912PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 (1912-2002)
  • Marcos Pérez Jiménezb. 1914VEpresident of Venezuela (1952-1958)
  • Marcos Alonso Peñab. 1959ESSpanish football player and manager (1959–2023)
  • Marcos Pontesb. 1963BRNASA astronaut, 22nd Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (2019–2022) and Senator of the Federative Republic of Brazil since 2023
  • Cafub. 1970BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
  • Marcos Rojob. 1990ARArgentine association football player
  • Marcos Acuñab. 1991ARArgentine association football player
  • Marquinhosb. 1994BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1994)
  • Marcos Llorenteb. 1995ESSpanish association football player
  • Juan Foythb. 1998ARnot in their usual nameArgentine 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 100 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Marcos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.1M#34
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—1.1M#10
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.1M—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1M#13
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202071K#720
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202019K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.7K#13
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025579—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—289#1,481
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020262#720
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—98—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#38,238

Reference works 8

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 Marcos come from?
from the personal name Marcos (see Mark 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Marcos 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 is Marcos most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marcos is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 196 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Marcos mean?
In Portuguese, Mark (one of the seventy disciples)
What are other forms of the name Marcos?
In the etymology graph, Mark, Marcelo and Marco are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Marcos?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,082,739 people named Marcos in 2022, about 1 in 196 residents.
How common is Marcos compared with other names?
In the United States, Marcos is the 16th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
Is Marcos a male or female name?
Marcos 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.

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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, “Marcos” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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