Markee
Masculine
Markee is given to both — 724 boys and 110 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Markee is a short name with the stress thrown onto its last syllable, which is not something the name Mark can do. Whether it was cut down from a title or built up from the name is not recorded, and the record holds it for sons and daughters both.
How old is the name Markee?
Markee first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Markee alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 700 people named Markee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Markee most popular?
Markee peaked in 1983, reaching #2341 nationally. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Markee
For a couple of centuries an English legal clerk who wrote marksman in a record meant the opposite of what the word means now. A person who could not write signed a document with a cross, and that cross was called his mark; the man who made it was the marksman, and the term appears in parish registers and court papers as a plain description of literacy, not of aim. The cross was often kissed after it was drawn, which made the signature binding in the signer's own eyes. The shooting sense grew up separately out of the other kind of mark — the target — and eventually drove the older one out of use entirely, so that the word now suggests precision where it used to record its absence. Both senses come from the same small word, which has meant a boundary, a sign, a target and a weight of silver at different times.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Two readings are possible and neither is documented. It may be the French title respelled, or the name Mark with a long ending attached. The English word for a large tent is a third resemblance and almost certainly a coincidence.
Pronouncing Markee
mar-KEE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. Readers who see Mark at the front sometimes put the weight there instead, which produces a different name, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Markee
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
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 199630 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2341reached in 1983
- Change vs 2021
- −28.6%5 in 2022, from 7
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.
Markees among us
people named Markee 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
Markee 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
The trade-off
- Back stress makes a two-syllable name land firmly.
- Mark is available as a short form and needs no explanation to anyone.
- It is short, phonetic and easy to write.
- The record holds it for both sons and daughters, and daughters are much the larger group, so the name carries no signal either way.
- Marquis, Markey and Marquee will all be written for it.
- Stress placement is genuinely unsettled, so the name gets said two ways by strangers.
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Frequently asked
- How many Markees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Markee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Markee in 2025?
- Markee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Markee with classmates?
- Markee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
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