Markese
Markese was last recorded in 2024, when 15 babies were given it; 1,165 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Markese and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markese by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markese?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,077, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1995, the peak
Markese peaked in 1995, when 52 boys were given it, #1,718 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15 | #6,077 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,567 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,081 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,691 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,881 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,710 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,972 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,041 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,454 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,839 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #4,801 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,264 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,624 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,148 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,190 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,607 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,261 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,754 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,352 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,889 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,816 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,586 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,860 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,282 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,713 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,320 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,294 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,870 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,404 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,718 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,151 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,190 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,824 | 22.5 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,902 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,764 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,092 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,482 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,151 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,474 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,032 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,771 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,361 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,453 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,761 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,789 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,484 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,047 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,931 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,736 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,452 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Markese a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markese has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markese: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markese, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,165 Americans ever recorded as Markese. The median Markese alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 780 people named Markese (20 women and girls, 760 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 51 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 428 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 182 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,033 babies since 1880, Markese is the most given (57% of them).
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 Markese
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 Markese and names like it
- Compare Markese and MarkeeseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarkese peaked in 1995.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markese since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Markese.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Markese alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.