Marx — boys' name
324 babies named Marx in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
18% of everyone ever named Marx was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Marx in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marx
The Social Security Administration has registered 324 babies named Marx between 1915 and 2023, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marx currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marx performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Marx shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Marx in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marx 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 324 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.
Marx at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marx popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1915
- Peak year (2015)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 109 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
324 total births across 109 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 16 births in a single year.
Marx popularity over time — girls
6 total births recorded since 1922 (Marx as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Marx accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Marx by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 58 births that decade — 18% of Marx's all-time total
Marx decade highlights
- Peak decade 58 births
- Runner-up 50 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Marx's strongest decade
58 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 18% of all-time use.
Marx by state
Where Marx concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 7 | 2.2% |
7 of 324 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.