Markis
Markis was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,307 among boys’ names; 911 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markis?
#10,307 among boys’ names, 2025
Markis fell from #6,930 in 2015 to #10,307 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.1 per million.
37 babies in 1990, the peak
Markis peaked in 1990, when 37 boys were given it, #2,030 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,307 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,099 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,390 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,490 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,408 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,350 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,386 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,948 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,930 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,476 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 20 | #4,742 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,968 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,485 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,395 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,687 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,196 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,657 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,856 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,006 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,710 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,365 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,607 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,576 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,010 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,245 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,754 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,115 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,166 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,653 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,816 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,234 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,386 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,118 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,030 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,954 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,171 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,608 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,792 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,033 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,837 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,748 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,847 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,540 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,975 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,750 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,043 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,153 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,359 | 7.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,181 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Markis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markis, and how old are they?
An estimated 882 Americans named Markis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 718 people named Markis (15 women and girls, 703 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,372 babies since 1880, Markis is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,089 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Markis
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 Markis and names like it
- Compare Markis and MarcusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarkis peaked in 1990.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markis since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Markis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Markis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.