Meaning not yet researched.
Marco: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 862 in 2025. Its best rank was #174 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #174 in 1996; #370 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marco in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#370 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #174.
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Marco: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 862 boys in 2025. Peak: #174 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 2,117 (2005).
In 2025, 862 US boys were named Marco, making it the 370th most common boys’ name of the year, up 17 places from #387 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 843 boys named Marco in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #174, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,117, in 2005. For comparison, it was #320 in 2015 and #770 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marco in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 76,917 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 19,152 babies named Marco.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,813 US boys were named Marco; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,063. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,982 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marco ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #249 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), Marc (141,137 babies since 1880) and Marcos (53,742 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marcua, Markco and Marcoa 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: Marcua (20), Markco (6), Marcoa (5).
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 Marco in the open dataset we use.
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 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 158 | #249 | #246 |
| Florida | 81 | #257 | #257 |
| California | 143 | #261 | #201 |
| New Jersey | 35 | #266 | #230 |
| Arizona | 29 | #279 | #220 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #284 | #253 |
| New York | 65 | #289 | #244 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #290 | #166 |
| Illinois | 34 | #321 | #266 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #360 | #350 |
| Nevada | 8 | #379 | #348 |
| Colorado | 17 | #379 | #467 |
| Maryland | 14 | #381 | #565 |
| Utah | 10 | #460 | #540 |
| Oregon | 8 | #461 | #532 |
| Washington | 16 | #467 | #390 |
| Idaho | 5 | #471 | — |
| Michigan | 18 | #476 | #400 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #507 | #447 |
| Virginia | 15 | #512 | #368 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #530 | #608 |
| Indiana | 13 | #530 | #650 |
| Kansas | 6 | #568 | #553 |
| Georgia | 18 | #577 | #489 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #602 | #539 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #620 | #614 |
| Ohio | 14 | #663 | #486 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #757 | #540 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #862 | #686 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 862 | #370 |
| 2024 | — | — | 843 | #387 |
| 2023 | — | — | 836 | #382 |
| 2022 | — | — | 878 | #371 |
| 2021 | — | — | 786 | #399 |
| 2020 | — | — | 786 | #393 |
| 2019 | — | — | 831 | #379 |
| 2018 | — | — | 918 | #360 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,010 | #337 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,063 | #326 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,086 | #320 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,129 | #310 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,216 | #285 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,304 | #272 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,257 | #280 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,312 | #264 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,464 | #243 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,817 | 1,678 | #224 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,867 | #209 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,865 | #206 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,117 | #187 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,360 | 2,011 | #191 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,960 | #192 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,764 | 2,027 | #186 |
| 2001 | — | — | 2,109 | #179 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,630 | 2,027 | #181 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,010 | 1,771 | #191 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,019 | 1,855 | #181 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,924 | #176 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,928 | 1,923 | #174 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,353 | 1,765 | #179 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,952 | 1,688 | #184 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,454 | 1,647 | #190 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,081 | 1,574 | #198 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,359 | 1,515 | #203 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,943 | 1,342 | #226 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,292 | 1,154 | #234 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,889 | 1,081 | #228 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,592 | 959 | #243 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,919 | 912 | #246 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,553 | 965 | #241 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,740 | 896 | #245 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,742 | 909 | #243 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,663 | 1,033 | #228 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,649 | 905 | #246 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,836 | 1,010 | #233 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,733 | 956 | #235 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,451 | 854 | #243 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,556 | 850 | #242 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,789 | 789 | #251 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,974 | 755 | #261 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,037 | 750 | #260 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,853 | 778 | #252 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,680 | 729 | #267 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,367 | 746 | #280 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,761 | 707 | #293 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,769 | 595 | #313 |
| 1968 | — | — | 486 | #353 |
| 1967 | — | — | 437 | #360 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,594 | 396 | #381 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,241 | 388 | #397 |
| 1964 | — | — | 355 | #425 |
| 1963 | — | — | 336 | #437 |
| 1962 | — | — | 313 | #449 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,173 | 220 | #537 |
| 1960 | — | — | 205 | #550 |
| 1959 | — | — | 210 | #540 |
| 1958 | — | — | 165 | #602 |
| 1957 | — | — | 143 | #643 |
| 1956 | — | — | 138 | #646 |
| 1955 | — | — | 117 | #676 |
| 1954 | — | — | 116 | #671 |
| 1953 | — | — | 99 | #720 |
| 1952 | — | — | 109 | #666 |
| 1951 | — | — | 95 | #715 |
| 1950 | — | — | 80 | #770 |
| 1949 | — | — | 65 | #853 |
| 1948 | — | — | 53 | #959 |
| 1947 | — | — | 68 | #841 |
| 1946 | — | — | 42 | #1,070 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,098 |
| 1944 | — | — | 48 | #929 |
| 1943 | — | — | 51 | #940 |
| 1942 | — | — | 39 | #1,104 |
| 1941 | — | — | 37 | #1,084 |
| 1940 | — | — | 34 | #1,148 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,673 | 38 | #1,046 |
| 1938 | — | — | 42 | #986 |
| 1937 | — | — | 29 | #1,257 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,288 |
| 1935 | — | — | 27 | #1,315 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,165 |
| 1933 | — | — | 36 | #1,099 |
| 1932 | — | — | 36 | #1,135 |
| 1931 | — | — | 53 | #884 |
| 1930 | — | — | 52 | #938 |
| 1929 | — | — | 47 | #991 |
| 1928 | — | — | 34 | #1,244 |
| 1927 | — | — | 46 | #1,036 |
| 1926 | — | — | 49 | #989 |
| 1925 | — | — | 54 | #920 |
| 1924 | — | — | 43 | #1,103 |
| 1923 | — | — | 45 | #1,072 |
| 1922 | — | — | 53 | #967 |
| 1921 | — | — | 50 | #997 |
| 1920 | — | — | 48 | #999 |
| 1919 | — | — | 33 | #1,242 |
| 1918 | — | — | 48 | #970 |
| 1917 | — | — | 34 | #1,164 |
| 1916 | — | — | 40 | #1,021 |
| 1915 | — | — | 38 | #1,049 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,041 |
| 1913 | — | — | 21 | #1,137 |
| 1912 | — | — | 16 | #1,209 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,095 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,759 |
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).