Markús

given name · Latin script

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

/mar̥kus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Markús is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 534(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 630
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.9K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

43,211 people

Sources
125 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 129 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Markus in FI Finland, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 3 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Markús 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 Markús is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#95343,2111 in 12949KMarkus42
SE Sweden#19319,1111 in 53419KMarkus125
US United States—13,4941 in 25K13KMarkus82
NO Norway#2938,6851 in 63032KMarkus86
DK Denmark#3783,0831 in 1.9K3.1KMarkus110
IS Iceland#9972561 in 1.4K256Markus38

43,211 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Markús is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name77 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marcus, Markus, Marcos, Márkus, Markues

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Brazil, Finland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Markus, Márkus, Markuš, Marküs

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Australia, Switzerland

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Markus, Márkus, 'Markus, Mark'Us, Markuš

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Márkus, Markus, Marḳus, Markuš

  • Croatian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Markuš, Markus, Маркус, Маркуш, Markuş

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Norway, Switzerland

    Also written Markus

5 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalHi Markús,

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 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Markús
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026256—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5#46,003
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5#10,322
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Markús?
A machine transcription gives /mar̥kus/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Markús a male or female name?
Markús 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 Markús have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Markús, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled markus.
Where is Markús most common?
Markús is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 129 people carrying it.
How common is the name Markús?
In Finland, the national register counted 43,211 people named Markús, about 1 in 129 residents.
How common is Markús compared with other names?
In Finland, Markús is the 953rd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.

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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, “Markús” — the 953rd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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