Marko
Marko was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,069 among boys’ names; 4,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,070 Americans named Marko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marko is “a male given name, equivalent to English Mark.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marko?
#2,069 among boys’ names, 2025
Marko fell from #1,608 in 2015 to #2,069 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 52.2 to 42.2 per million.
138 babies in 2006, the peak
Marko peaked in 2006, when 138 boys were given it, #1,222 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,069 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 86 | #1,871 | 49.9 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,165 | 39.2 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,310 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,925 | 45.2 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,860 | 46.3 |
| 2019 | 82 | #1,846 | 45.7 |
| 2018 | 81 | #1,866 | 44.6 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,677 | 51.3 |
| 2016 | 94 | #1,681 | 49.5 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,608 | 52.2 |
| 2014 | 97 | #1,617 | 50.5 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,365 | 65.6 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,585 | 52.7 |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,506 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,499 | 56.8 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,552 | 53.4 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,451 | 55.9 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,440 | 54.4 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,222 | 67.1 |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,319 | 57.6 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,421 | 50.4 |
| 2003 | 90 | #1,458 | 45.6 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,425 | 46.9 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,391 | 46.3 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,469 | 42.8 |
| 1999 | 71 | #1,563 | 37.0 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,563 | 35.6 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,741 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 70 | #1,457 | 37.0 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,851 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,839 | 24.3 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,727 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,789 | 23.5 |
| 1991 | 58 | #1,513 | 28.7 |
| 1990 | 51 | #1,621 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,504 | 27.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,688 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 53 | #1,393 | 28.4 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,426 | 26.6 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,296 | 29.8 |
| 1984 | 45 | #1,436 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,211 | 31.8 |
| 1982 | 41 | #1,529 | 22.6 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,174 | 34.6 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,265 | 30.3 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,383 | 26.7 |
| 1978 | 41 | #1,464 | 25.0 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,421 | 25.6 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,633 | 21.0 |
| 1975 | 37 | #1,472 | 23.7 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,281 | 28.0 |
| 1973 | 40 | #1,323 | 25.7 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,758 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,894 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 35 | #1,428 | 18.8 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,790 | 12.3 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,603 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,494 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 27 | #1,498 | 15.1 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,699 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,082 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,874 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,656 | 11.6 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,857 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,798 | 9.8 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,077 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,954 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,155 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,446 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,944 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,175 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,310 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,050 | 7.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,940 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,029 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,082 | 4.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,860 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,108 | 5.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,340 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,851 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,874 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,969 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,100 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,799 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,185 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,274 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,345 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,636 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,507 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,055 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,948 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,549 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,741 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,134 | 8.2 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,013 | 6.1 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,104 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,745 | 10.6 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,191 | 41.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marko has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marko, and how old are they?
4,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 4,439 Americans ever recorded as Marko. The median Marko alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 5,530 people named Marko (42 women and girls, 5,488 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 159 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 473 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 788 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
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).
Where are babies named Marko born?
The states with the most babies named Marko are Illinois, Pennsylvania and California, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 15 | #619 | 2.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #893 | 0.2× |
| California | 7 | #2,122 | 1.2× |
| New York | 5 | #1,945 | 1.1× |
Where Marko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marko is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marko with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 83,540 babies since 1880, Marko is the second most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 953 babies (7.6%), again the second 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 Marko
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 Marko and names like it
- Compare Marko and MarcoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarko peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marko since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Marko.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marko alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.