Markcus
Markcus was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 192 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markcus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markcus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,323, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1989, the peak
Markcus peaked in 1989, when 14 boys were given it, #3,934 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,323 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,353 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,761 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,850 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,667 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,289 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,061 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,813 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,969 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,636 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #8,481 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,755 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,238 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,498 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,097 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,241 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,934 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,057 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,640 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,704 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,529 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,347 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,547 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,384 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,378 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,419 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Markcus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markcus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markcus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markcus, and how old are they?
An estimated 184 Americans named Markcus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Markcus (0 women and girls, 202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
How common is the spelling Markcus?
Markcus is a less common spelling of Marcus: SSA has recorded 192 Markcus and 242,999 Marcus since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,372 babies since 1880, Markcus is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,089 babies recorded by SSA was a Markcus (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 Markcus
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 Markcus and names like it
- Compare Markcus and MarcusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarkcus peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Markcus.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Markcus alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.