Markey
Markey was last recorded in 2017, when 7 babies were given it; 289 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,384, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1980, the peak
Markey peaked in 1980, when 15 boys were given it, #3,048 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | #10,384 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,595 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,644 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,494 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,486 | 6.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,524 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,270 | 3.5 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,863 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,285 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,228 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #8,598 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,483 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,469 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,634 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,958 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,380 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,573 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,004 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,203 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,699 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,709 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,996 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,055 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,548 | 6.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,905 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,048 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,679 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,859 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,042 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,151 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,358 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,066 | 7.6 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,768 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,731 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,234 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,395 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,301 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Markey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 289 Americans recorded as Markey, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Markey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markey, and how old are they?
An estimated 271 Americans named Markey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 30 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 353 people named Markey (99 women and girls, 254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 276 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,010 babies since 1880, Markey is the third most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 85 babies recorded by SSA was a Markey (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 Markey
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 Markey and names like it
- Compare Markey and MarkoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarkey peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Markey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Markey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.