Marek

Marek is the 4,789th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,160 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 41,700.

By the numbers

People: 7,160
Rank: 4,789th
How common: 1 in 41,700
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Czech, Slovak and Polish Marek.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Marek

Jan Marek (1979–2011)Czech ice hockey player
Jiří Marek (1914–1994)Czech publicist, scriptwriter, writer and university educator

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

Surnames like Marek

Also a first name

Marek has been given to 3,141 American babies as a first name since 1956, peaking in 2010. 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.