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Markie

Markie reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 1,237, and has been recorded 1,936 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 1,900 Markies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Markie boys named Markie

Girls and boys called Markie

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,600 girls and 336 boys in all, and in 2018 the split was 18 to 7.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 19 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,936
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
32
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,237th
Rank in 2025
7,491st
First recorded
1926
Girls / boys
1,600 / 336

How old the living Markies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,936 babies given the name since 1926, about 1,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.

Notable Markies

People named Markie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Markie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Markie is most concentrated in Utah (4.7×), California (3.4×), Ohio (2.7×), Texas (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Markie peaked:

All the names of 1990

Related names

Markie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Markie with a name of your own

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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.