Marcos

5,263 people in the United States were counted with the surname Marcos in the 2020 census, making it the 6,234th most common in the country. That is about one person in 56,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,263
Rank: 6,234th
How common: 1 in 56,800
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

From roa Marcos (Spanish Marcos and Portuguese Marcos).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Marcos described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 65.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 16.2%
White, not Hispanic 15.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Marcos

Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989)President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Imelda Marcos (born 1929)Philippine former First Lady
Bongbong Marcos (born 1957)president of the Philippines since 2022
Óscar de Marcos (born 1989)Spanish footballer
Marcos (born 1973)Brazilian association football player
Óscar González Marcos (born 1982)Spanish footballer
Cristina Marcos (born 1963)Spanish actress and presenter
Nélson Marcos (born 1983)Portuguese footballer

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

Surnames like Marcos

Also a first name

Marcos has been given to 53,742 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.