Marco
Marco is a boy's name that peaked in 2005, when it was the 187th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 370th. About 72,000 Marcos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marco boys named Marco
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 76,917
- Estimated living today
- 72,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 187th
- Rank in 2025
- 370th
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 339 / 76,578
How old the living Marcos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 76,917 babies given the name since 1910, about 72,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Romance languages
From roa Marco Marco (Italian Marco, Portuguese Marco, Spanish Marco).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marcos
- Marco Polo (1254–1324)Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia
- Marco van Basten (born 1964)Dutch association football player and manager
- Marco Rubio (born 1971)72nd United States Secretary of State since 2025
- Marco Reus (born 1989)German association football player
- Marco Verratti (born 1992)Italian association football player
- Marco Materazzi (born 1973)Italian association football player and manager
- Marco Asensio (born 1996)Spanish association football player
- Marco Mengoni (born 1988)Italian singer
People named Marco with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marco is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marco is most concentrated in Arizona (3.1×), California (2.9×), Texas (2.6×), Nevada (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Marco peaked:
Marco elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Marco | 99,894 | — |
| Spain boys | Marco | 23,311 | 19th |
| France boys | Marco | 8,470 | 228th |
| Austria boys | Marco | 8,322 | 24th |
| Switzerland boys | Marco | 3,800 | 6th |
| England and Wales boys | Marco | 2,602 | 372nd |
| Belgium boys | Marco | 1,164 | 158th |
| Norway boys | Marco | 747 | 231st |
| Scotland boys | Marco | 539 | 196th |
| Poland boys | Marco | 528 birth registrations | 180th |
| Italy girls | Marco | 370 | — |
| Ireland boys | Marco | 235 | 299th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Marco | 37 | 291st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marco: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Marco | 2,955 | 0.237% | 8th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Marco | 580 | 0.133% | 42nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Marco | 254 | 0.390% | 9th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Marco | 11 | 0.296% | 2nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marco is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.59% of children were given it – 48 of them.
Marco: rank by region
In 2025, Marco was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Marco | 806 | 6 |
| Brussels | Marco | 225 | 6 |
In 2023, Marco was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantabria | Marco | 9 | 25 |
In 2020, Marco was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Marco | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Marco was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opolskie | Marco | 126 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Marco | 158 | 2 |
In 2010, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Marco appears in the lists for Isole (10th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marco appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (225th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marco by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 21 | 318th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marco among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Marco | 26,876 | 30,889 |
| Finland boys | Marco | 787 | 990 |
| the Netherlands girls | Marco | — | 169 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marco lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 30,125 men called Marco were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantabria | Marco | 772 | 2.686 | 76 |
| Palencia | Marco | 178 | 2.259 | 84 |
| Burgos | Marco | 406 | 2.237 | 81 |
| Valladolid | Marco | 520 | 2.020 | 86 |
| Soria | Marco | 88 | 1.920 | 86 |
| Zamora | Marco | 156 | 1.903 | 92 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marco against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.