Marcos
Feminine · “From Latin Marcus”
Marcos is given to boys far more often — 53,580 boys against 162 girls since 1880. See Marcos as a boy name
Marcos entered the US charts in 1926, peaked at #4306 in 1926, is rarely given in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Marcos?
Marcos first appears in US birth records in 1926 — 99 years ago. The typical Marcos alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 200 people named Marcos are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marcos most popular?
Marcos peaked in 1926, reaching #4306 nationally. See the whole 1926 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marcus to Marcos
The story of Marcos
Marcus was one of a very short list of given names in wide Roman use, which is why it turns up so often in the classical record and why it outlasted the empire that produced it. Christianity carried it further: Mark the Evangelist, author of the second gospel and patron saint of Venice, gave the name a place in every European language that had a church calendar. Spanish and Portuguese settled on Marcos, Italian on Marco, French on Marc, English on Mark. Spanish speakers brought Marcos across the Atlantic, and it has been on American birth records since the nineteenth century without a break.
Meaningscholars disagree
From Latin Marcus, most often read as connected to Mars, the Roman god of war
The usual reading ties Marcus to the god Mars, giving a sense of 'dedicated to Mars.' A second line of scholarship points to the ordinary Latin noun marcus, a hammer. Roman personal names of that age are hard to pin down, and neither reading has fully won.
How the name formed
- Marcus
- Markos
- Marcos
Related forms: Mark · Marco · Marcus · Marc · Markos · Marek
Pronouncing Marcos
MAR-kohs
Stress on the first syllable in both Spanish and English. Spanish speakers give the vowels a shorter, cleaner sound; English speakers tend to lengthen the second to 'kohss.' Either way the final s is pronounced.
Nicknames for Marcos
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1926
- Most girls named
- 199413 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4306reached in 1926
- Change vs 2000
- +20.0%6 in 2004, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marcos in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mark in English — same name
- Marco in Italian — same name
- Marcus in Latin — same name
- Marc in French — same name
- Markos in Greek — transliteration
- Marek in Polish — same name
Marcoss among us
people named Marcos are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Marcos sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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Frequently asked
- How many Marcoss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Marcos are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marcos in 2025?
- Marcos is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Marcos with classmates?
- Marcos will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
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