Marco — #387 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marco

The Social Security Administration has registered 75,703 babies named Marco between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marco currently holds the #387 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 2,117 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marco performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 19,122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Marco shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 21,059 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Marco in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marco in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 75,703 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.