Markus
The boy's name Markus has been in the national records since 1915, with 14,947 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,333rd. About 14,000 Markuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Markus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,947
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 508th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,333rd
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Markuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,947 babies given the name since 1915, about 14,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 4,400 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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 Latin
Rare spelling variant of Marcus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Markuss
- Markus Persson (born 1979)Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang
- Markus Söder (born 1967)German politician (CSU)
- Markus Babbel (born 1972)German association football player and manager
- Markus Wolf (1923–2006)Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War
- Markus Zusak (born 1975)Australian author
- Markus Rosenberg (born 1982)Swedish association football player
- Markus Merk (born 1962)German football referee
- Markus Winkelhock (born 1980)German racing driver
People named Markus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Markus is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Markus is most concentrated in Washington (1.9×), Arizona (1.9×), California (1.6×), Florida (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular boys’ names the year Markus peaked:
Markus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Markus | 23,174 | 6th |
| Norway boys | Markus | 8,759 | 13th |
| England and Wales boys | Markus | 715 | 711th |
| France boys | Markus | 550 | 1,132nd |
| Poland boys | Markus | 398 birth registrations | 219th |
| Switzerland boys | Markus | 336 | 211th |
| Italy boys | Markus | 300 | — |
| Belgium boys | Markus | 110 | 739th |
| Ireland boys | Markus | 98 | 354th |
| Scotland boys | Markus | 95 | 386th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Markus | 17 | 329th |
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.
Markus: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Markus | 298 | 0.024% | 143rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Markus | 32 | 0.007% | 326th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Markus | 4 | 0.006% | 184th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Markus | 2 | 0.054% | 12th |
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, Markus is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Markus: rank by region
In 2025, Markus was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Markus | 589 | 9 |
In 2025, Markus was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Markus | 312 | 2 |
| Opolskie | Markus | 126 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Markus appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – 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.
Markus by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 16 | 309th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Markus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Markus | 15,723 | 43,173 |
| the Netherlands boys | Markus | 3,466 | 4,981 |
| the Netherlands girls | Markus | — | 55 |
| Finland girls | Markus | 6 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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 Markus lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 585 men called Markus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Markus | 79 | 0.127 | 604 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Markus | 60 | 0.113 | 811 |
| Palmas, Las | Markus | 51 | 0.088 | 1,004 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Markus | 49 | 0.049 | 1,337 |
| Girona | Markus | 18 | 0.043 | 1,373 |
| Málaga | Markus | 33 | 0.038 | 1,349 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 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
Markus 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.