Marx

11,512 people in the United States were counted with the surname Marx in the 2020 census, making it the 3,048th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,512
Rank: 3,048th
How common: 1 in 26,000
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Marx

Karl Marx (1818–1883)German-born philosopher
Groucho Marx (1890–1977)American comedian
Wilhelm Marx (1863–1946)German politician
Harpo Marx (1888–1964)American comedian
Richard Marx (born 1963)American singer and songwriter
Eleanor Marx (1855–1898)English writer, translator, activist, and daughter of Karl Marx
Reinhard Marx (born 1953)German Roman Catholic cardinal
Chico Marx (1887–1961)American comedian

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

Surnames like Marx

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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.