Meaning not yet researched.
Marc: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 162 in 2025. Its best rank was #60 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #60 in 1970; #1,237 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marc in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,237 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #60.
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Marc: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 162 boys in 2025. Peak: #60 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 5,009 (1970).
In 2025, 162 US boys were named Marc, making it the 1,237th most common boys’ name of the year, down 43 places from #1,194 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 172 boys named Marc in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #60, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,009. For comparison, it was #674 in 2015 and #167 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marc in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 6 babies. In all, 141,137 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 31,998 babies named Marc.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,267 US boys were named Marc; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 356. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,544 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marc ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #776 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mark (1,366,672 babies since 1880), Marcus (242,999 babies since 1880), Marco (76,917 babies since 1880) and Marcos (53,742 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marche are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marche (418).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marc in the open dataset we use.
Marc is listed as a nickname for Marcus.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #776 | #615 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #806 | #496 |
| New York | 17 | #827 | #383 |
| California | 27 | #876 | #479 |
| Florida | 16 | #904 | #415 |
| Texas | 27 | #925 | #677 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #990 | #954 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,419 | #571 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 162 | #1,237 |
| 2024 | — | — | 172 | #1,194 |
| 2023 | — | — | 194 | #1,100 |
| 2022 | — | — | 195 | #1,100 |
| 2021 | — | — | 217 | #1,014 |
| 2020 | — | — | 182 | #1,092 |
| 2019 | — | — | 222 | #964 |
| 2018 | — | — | 269 | #831 |
| 2017 | — | — | 298 | #787 |
| 2016 | — | — | 356 | #694 |
| 2015 | — | — | 377 | #674 |
| 2014 | — | — | 411 | #642 |
| 2013 | — | — | 376 | #651 |
| 2012 | — | — | 419 | #604 |
| 2011 | — | — | 438 | #572 |
| 2010 | — | — | 437 | #579 |
| 2009 | — | — | 472 | #559 |
| 2008 | — | — | 609 | #456 |
| 2007 | — | — | 632 | #444 |
| 2006 | — | — | 727 | #407 |
| 2005 | — | — | 760 | #381 |
| 2004 | — | — | 899 | #333 |
| 2003 | — | — | 920 | #322 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,069 | #283 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,246 | #262 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,621 | 1,485 | #229 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,369 | #235 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,291 | #241 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,105 | 1,337 | #231 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,292 | #233 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,336 | #222 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,841 | 1,355 | #213 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,306 | 1,404 | #215 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,219 | 1,448 | #213 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,581 | #196 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,919 | 1,902 | #163 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,473 | 1,893 | #160 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,934 | 1,873 | #149 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,802 | 1,967 | #143 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,287 | 2,032 | #137 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,933 | 2,161 | #129 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,675 | 2,102 | #131 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,597 | 2,091 | #125 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,662 | 2,043 | #138 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,769 | 2,047 | #134 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,592 | 2,310 | #119 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,987 | 2,267 | #119 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,376 | 2,480 | #107 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,399 | 2,601 | #101 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,265 | 2,598 | #99 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,058 | 2,822 | #89 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,506 | 3,108 | #85 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,274 | 3,275 | #81 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,014 | 3,465 | #83 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,023 | 4,212 | #70 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,827 | 5,009 | #60 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,970 | 4,500 | #63 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,124 | 3,537 | #84 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,275 | 3,101 | #101 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,670 | 2,972 | #105 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,697 | 3,051 | #108 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,839 | 3,084 | #113 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,938 | 2,893 | #123 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,296 | 2,943 | #122 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,291 | 2,708 | #133 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,649 | 2,586 | #136 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,356 | 2,506 | #140 |
| 1958 | — | — | 2,404 | #145 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,186 | 2,481 | #139 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,127 | 2,430 | #135 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,599 | 2,632 | #126 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,970 | 2,403 | #133 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,979 | #144 |
| 1952 | — | — | 1,838 | #153 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,656 | 1,775 | #148 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,073 | 1,503 | #167 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,029 | 1,396 | #167 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,715 | 1,255 | #175 |
| 1947 | — | — | 1,061 | #192 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,858 | 790 | #215 |
| 1945 | — | — | 613 | #221 |
| 1944 | — | — | 292 | #351 |
| 1943 | — | — | 225 | #411 |
| 1942 | — | — | 219 | #416 |
| 1941 | — | — | 207 | #407 |
| 1940 | — | — | 122 | #530 |
| 1939 | — | — | 77 | #679 |
| 1938 | — | — | 78 | #687 |
| 1937 | — | — | 56 | #820 |
| 1936 | — | — | 45 | #920 |
| 1935 | — | — | 63 | #783 |
| 1934 | — | — | 38 | #1,068 |
| 1933 | — | — | 29 | #1,243 |
| 1932 | — | — | 45 | #988 |
| 1931 | — | — | 20 | #1,623 |
| 1930 | — | — | 38 | #1,146 |
| 1929 | — | — | 32 | #1,257 |
| 1928 | — | — | 32 | #1,286 |
| 1927 | — | — | 29 | #1,393 |
| 1926 | — | — | 27 | #1,423 |
| 1925 | — | — | 24 | #1,563 |
| 1924 | — | — | 31 | #1,348 |
| 1923 | — | — | 23 | #1,624 |
| 1922 | — | — | 27 | #1,459 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,623 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,671 |
| 1919 | — | — | 17 | #1,938 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,873 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,873 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,111 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,134 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,928 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,895 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,492 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,081 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,356 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,016 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).