Marko — #1861 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marko

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,365 babies named Marko between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marko currently holds the #1861 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 138 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marko performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,041 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Marko shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 631 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Marko in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marko 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 4,365 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.