Marc
About 141,137 American babies have been named Marc since 1901, most of them around 1970. In 2025 it ranked 1,235th. About 120,000 Marcs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marc boys named Marc
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 141,137
- Estimated living today
- 120,000
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 60th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,235th
- First recorded
- 1901
- Girls / boys
- 533 / 140,604
How old the living Marcs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 141,137 babies given the name since 1901, about 120,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 5,800 of them are children and 20,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
from Latin Marcus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marcs
- Marc Chagall (1887–1985)Belarusian-French artist
- Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (born 1957)former President of Burkina Faso ousted in a coup d'état on 23 Jan 2022
- Marc Hagit Cucurella (born 1998)Spanish association football player
- Marc Anthony (born 1968)American singer
- Marc Bartra (born 1991)Spanish soccer player
- Marc Overmars (born 1973)Dutch association football player
- Marc Márquez (born 1993)Spanish motorcycle racer
- Marc Ravalomanana (born 1949)President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009
People named Marc with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marc is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marc is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.9×), New Hampshire (2.7×), Connecticut (2.3×), Massachusetts (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Marc peaked:
Marc elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Marc | 238,230 | 17th |
| Spain boys | Marc | 38,204 | 22nd |
| Scotland boys | Marc | 4,334 | 41st |
| Switzerland boys | Marc | 2,569 | 26th |
| England and Wales boys | Marc | 2,216 | 169th |
| Ireland boys | Marc | 1,234 | 120th |
| Belgium boys | Marc | 548 | 249th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Marc | 348 | 73rd |
| France girls | Marc | 280 | 843rd |
| Italy boys | Marc | 268 | — |
| Norway boys | Marc | 181 | 377th |
| Poland boys | Marc | 50 birth registrations | 330th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marc: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Marc | 2,142 | 0.172% | 25th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Marc | 398 | 0.091% | 57th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Marc | 21 | 0.032% | 94th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Marc | 8 | 0.215% | 4th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marc is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.28% of children were given it – 75 of them.
Marc: rank by region
In 2025, Marc was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Marc | 461 | 5 |
| Brussels | Marc | 187 | 7 |
In 2024, Marc was among the 10 most common names in 3 regions of Spain, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 23 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illes Balears | Marc | 1 | 111 |
| Cataluña | Marc | 3 | 344 |
| Comunitat Valenciana | Marc | 4 | 305 |
In 2024, Marc was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Marc | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marc appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (187th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marc by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 68 | 236th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marc among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Marc | 14,822 | 17,889 |
| Finland boys | Marc | 190 | 264 |
| the Netherlands girls | Marc | — | 148 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marc lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 76,001 men called Marc were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Marc | 6,576 | 15.794 | 5 |
| Barcelona | Marc | 40,550 | 13.903 | 7 |
| Lleida | Marc | 3,228 | 13.710 | 7 |
| Tarragona | Marc | 5,504 | 12.556 | 8 |
| Balears, Illes | Marc | 5,233 | 8.404 | 16 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Marc | 2,093 | 6.707 | 28 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marc against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.