Markee — boys' name
724 babies named Markee in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Markee was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Markee in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Markee
The Social Security Administration has registered 724 babies named Markee between 1970 and 2022, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Markee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Markee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 110 additional births since 1983.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Markee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 202 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Markee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Markee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Markee 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 724 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.
Markee at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Markee popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1970
- Peak year (1996)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
724 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 30 births in a single year.
Markee popularity over time — girls
110 total births recorded since 1983 (Markee as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Markee accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Markee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 202 births that decade — 28% of Markee's all-time total
Markee decade highlights
- Peak decade 202 births
- Runner-up 177 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Markee's strongest decade
202 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Markee by state
Where Markee concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 18 | 2.5% |
18 of 724 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.