Markus

3,485 people in the United States were counted with the surname Markus in the 2020 census, making it the 9,010th most common in the country. That is about one person in 85,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,485
Rank: 9,010th
How common: 1 in 85,800
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Rare spelling variant of Marcus.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Markus

Tetiana Markus (1921–1943)Ukrainian Member of the anti-Nazi underground in Kiev
Winnie Markus (1921–2002)German actress
Riejanne Markus (born 1994)Dutch cyclist
Barry Markus (born 1991)Dutch road bicycle racer
Erzsébet Márkus (born 1969)Hungarian weightlifter

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

Surnames like Markus

Also a first name

Markus has been given to 14,947 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 1994. 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.