Marka
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Steady rain
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2000
Marka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 184K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- INIndia≈1 in 400K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 184K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mark-A 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)Steady rain
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 401K | 133 | — | 15 |
| US United States | 351 | 1 in 948K | 323 | Mark-A | 146 |
| HR Croatia | 23 | 1 in 184K | 23 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | 1 in 864K | 20 | — | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 609K | 1 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)Marka 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.
the mind; eclipse; the vital breath.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Russian, "hammer." Fem of Mark.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of marok
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, mark; sign; symbol; indication; imprint; impression
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to mark an area, mark a boundary around something
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)- Sebastian Markab. 1978DEGerman film editor and film director
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 293 | #10,748 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 133 | #23,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 118 | #132,259 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #132,740 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Marka mean, and where does it come from?
- Steady rain Recorded by The book of African names.
- In which country does Marka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Marka in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 184 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Marka in 2020, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/markaThe 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, “Marka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.