Meaning not yet researched.
Markus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #495 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #495 in 1990; #1,336 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Markus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,336 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #495.
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Markus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 boys in 2025. Peak: #495 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 396 (1994).
In 2025, 144 US boys were named Markus, making it the 1,336th most common boys’ name of the year, down 114 places from #1,222 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 165 boys named Markus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #495, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 396, in 1994. For comparison, it was #867 in 2015 and #2,166 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Markus in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 14,947 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,487 babies named Markus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,820 US boys were named Markus; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 264. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,862 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Markus ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #777 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 Markese, Markez and Markise 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: Markese (1,165), Markez (298), Markise (191), Markees (147), Markies (85), Markiss (10), Markeys (5), Markeas (5), Markess (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 Markus 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 8 | #777 | #1,048 |
| Michigan | 8 | #881 | #584 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,190 | #690 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,203 | #613 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,229 | #1,087 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,238 | #1,074 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,240 | #911 |
| California | 15 | #1,279 | #888 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 144 | #1,336 |
| 2024 | — | — | 165 | #1,222 |
| 2023 | — | — | 140 | #1,355 |
| 2022 | — | — | 152 | #1,276 |
| 2021 | — | — | 181 | #1,129 |
| 2020 | — | — | 156 | #1,212 |
| 2019 | — | — | 181 | #1,099 |
| 2018 | — | — | 212 | #980 |
| 2017 | — | — | 225 | #932 |
| 2016 | — | — | 264 | #852 |
| 2015 | — | — | 261 | #867 |
| 2014 | — | — | 327 | #734 |
| 2013 | — | — | 279 | #797 |
| 2012 | — | — | 265 | #828 |
| 2011 | — | — | 345 | #686 |
| 2010 | — | — | 347 | #682 |
| 2009 | — | — | 392 | #640 |
| 2008 | — | — | 355 | #681 |
| 2007 | — | — | 346 | #687 |
| 2006 | — | — | 370 | #634 |
| 2005 | — | — | 289 | #709 |
| 2004 | — | — | 332 | #636 |
| 2003 | — | — | 302 | #657 |
| 2002 | — | — | 288 | #653 |
| 2001 | — | — | 277 | #662 |
| 2000 | — | — | 300 | #625 |
| 1999 | — | — | 305 | #604 |
| 1998 | — | — | 286 | #631 |
| 1997 | — | — | 330 | #568 |
| 1996 | — | — | 306 | #588 |
| 1995 | — | — | 350 | #544 |
| 1994 | — | — | 396 | #508 |
| 1993 | — | — | 375 | #530 |
| 1992 | — | — | 390 | #514 |
| 1991 | — | — | 363 | #530 |
| 1990 | — | — | 386 | #495 |
| 1989 | — | — | 317 | #544 |
| 1988 | — | — | 299 | #528 |
| 1987 | — | — | 266 | #558 |
| 1986 | — | — | 236 | #579 |
| 1985 | — | — | 192 | #636 |
| 1984 | — | — | 201 | #602 |
| 1983 | — | — | 177 | #645 |
| 1982 | — | — | 163 | #681 |
| 1981 | — | — | 148 | #712 |
| 1980 | — | — | 137 | #750 |
| 1979 | — | — | 148 | #706 |
| 1978 | — | — | 163 | #659 |
| 1977 | — | — | 136 | #733 |
| 1976 | — | — | 134 | #725 |
| 1975 | — | — | 130 | #729 |
| 1974 | — | — | 125 | #728 |
| 1973 | — | — | 109 | #765 |
| 1972 | — | — | 97 | #814 |
| 1971 | — | — | 119 | #752 |
| 1970 | — | — | 120 | #750 |
| 1969 | — | — | 104 | #768 |
| 1968 | — | — | 88 | #793 |
| 1967 | — | — | 86 | #789 |
| 1966 | — | — | 79 | #825 |
| 1965 | — | — | 69 | #888 |
| 1964 | — | — | 66 | #942 |
| 1963 | — | — | 68 | #910 |
| 1962 | — | — | 45 | #1,160 |
| 1961 | — | — | 64 | #964 |
| 1960 | — | — | 56 | #1,027 |
| 1959 | — | — | 45 | #1,164 |
| 1958 | — | — | 51 | #1,075 |
| 1957 | — | — | 34 | #1,358 |
| 1956 | — | — | 34 | #1,327 |
| 1955 | — | — | 28 | #1,474 |
| 1954 | — | — | 30 | #1,399 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,754 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,912 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,761 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,166 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,737 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,937 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,607 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,738 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,826 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,794 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,876 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #3,010 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,982 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,834 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,025 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,768 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,088 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,742 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,890 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,856 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,270 |
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).