Meaning not yet researched.
Marek: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,224 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,224 in 2010; #2,629 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marek in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,629 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,224.
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Marek: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,224 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 145 (2010).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Marek, making it the 2,629th most common boys’ name of the year, down 136 places from #2,493 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 55 boys named Marek in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,224, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #1,500 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marek in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 3,141 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,067 babies named Marek.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 726 US boys were named Marek; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marek ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,004 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 Marco (76,917 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marik, Marieke and Maryke 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: Marik (299), Marieke (119), Maryke (11), Mareike (5), Marrek (5), Mareck (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 Marek 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,004 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,629 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,493 |
| 2023 | — | — | 54 | #2,500 |
| 2022 | — | — | 73 | #2,073 |
| 2021 | — | — | 63 | #2,248 |
| 2020 | — | — | 66 | #2,128 |
| 2019 | — | — | 66 | #2,162 |
| 2018 | — | — | 101 | #1,620 |
| 2017 | — | — | 90 | #1,731 |
| 2016 | — | — | 108 | #1,545 |
| 2015 | — | — | 111 | #1,500 |
| 2014 | — | — | 109 | #1,490 |
| 2013 | — | — | 129 | #1,335 |
| 2012 | — | — | 99 | #1,593 |
| 2011 | — | — | 109 | #1,489 |
| 2010 | — | — | 145 | #1,224 |
| 2009 | — | — | 139 | #1,269 |
| 2008 | — | — | 129 | #1,340 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,443 | 143 | #1,235 |
| 2006 | — | — | 122 | #1,343 |
| 2005 | — | — | 104 | #1,429 |
| 2004 | — | — | 100 | #1,422 |
| 2003 | — | — | 65 | #1,833 |
| 2002 | — | — | 61 | #1,860 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,140 |
| 2000 | — | — | 36 | #2,605 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,498 |
| 1998 | — | — | 32 | #2,629 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,587 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,466 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,428 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,957 |
| 1993 | — | — | 23 | #2,993 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,895 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,795 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,895 |
| 1989 | — | — | 34 | #2,095 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,411 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,611 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,266 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,532 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,408 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,466 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,780 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,245 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,497 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,438 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,326 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,523 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,775 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,850 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,630 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,464 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,270 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,086 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,367 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,500 |
| 1968 | — | — | 20 | #1,813 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,307 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,777 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,151 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,775 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,975 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,556 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,356 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,790 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,279 |
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).