Marcas
Marcas was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 239 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marcas mean?
Wiktionary, Irish section
Marcas is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Mark or Marcus”
From Latin Marcus.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Irish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marcas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,444, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1980, the peak
Marcas peaked in 1980, when 11 boys were given it, #3,756 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,444 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,338 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,341 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,312 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,491 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,537 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,434 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,246 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,800 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,388 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #11,667 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,771 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,806 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,592 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,715 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,310 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,349 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,890 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,695 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,056 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,450 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,337 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,992 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,050 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,259 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,124 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,792 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,756 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,794 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,039 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,198 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,702 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,545 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcas, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Marcas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 21 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Marcas (5 women and girls, 234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,223 babies since 1880, Marcas is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,089 babies recorded by SSA was a Marcas (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marcas
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marcas and names like it
- Compare Marcas and MarcusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarcas peaked in 1980.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Marcas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Marcas.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marcas alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.