Markese
Masculine · “Of Mars”
Markese puts the stress on a syllable that Mark does not have. The name it is built on is one closed syllable with nowhere for the weight to move; adding an ending that takes the stress turns a blunt one-beat name into a two-beat one that finishes at the back.
How old is the name Markese?
Markese first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Markese alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 1,100 people named Markese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Markese most popular?
Markese peaked in 1995, reaching #1706 nationally. See the whole 1995 chart.
Where it comes from
From Marcus to Markese
The story of Markese
The most famous Marcus to lose everything left no account of his own. Mark Antony's version of the war he fought and lost has not survived: what we have was written by people on the winning side or by historians working from their material a century later, and the picture of a capable soldier ruined by a foreign queen is a piece of propaganda that was extremely effective at the time and has never been dislodged. Cleopatra gets the same treatment from the same sources. It is one of the clearest cases in ancient history of a settled popular story resting entirely on the account of the man who won, and the Roman public was being told it while the fighting was still going on.
Meaningscholars disagree
Of Mars
Marcus is generally connected to the Roman god of war, in the way that many Roman names dedicated a child to a deity. The ending is an American addition borrowed from a set of names ending the same way, and it carries no meaning; English otherwise uses that ending almost exclusively on words naming nations and languages.
How the name formed
- Marcus
- Mark
- Markese
Pronouncing Markese
mar-KEES
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The ending is said with a long e and a plain s, exactly as in the words English uses it on, and the name is finished firmly rather than trailing off.
Nicknames for Markese
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
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 199552 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1706reached in 1995
- Change vs 2023
- +36.4%15 in 2024, from 11
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.
Markeses among us
people named Markese 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
Markese 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
- Final stress gives the name a definite finish and makes it carry when called.
- Mark is a complete, established name sitting in the front half.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English and it is never mispronounced twice.
- Markes, Marquese and Markese all circulate, so spelling it out is likely.
- The ending is one English otherwise uses on nationalities, which readers notice.
- It is closely dated to one American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Markeses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Markese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Markese in 2025?
- Markese is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Markese with classmates?
- Markese will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
Michael#21 · Matthew#32 · Mark#244 · Mason#39 · Martin#335 · Marvin#699 · Melvin#958 · Marcus#258
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