Marcos
Marcos is a boy's name that peaked in 2001, when it was the 240th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 516th. About 50,000 Marcoses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marcos boys named Marcos
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 53,742
- Estimated living today
- 50,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 240th
- Rank in 2025
- 516th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 162 / 53,580
How old the living Marcoses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 53,742 babies given the name since 1888, about 50,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 1,200 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 Spanish, Portuguese
From roa Marcos (Spanish Marcos and Portuguese Marcos).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marcoss
- Marcos Rojo (born 1990)Argentine association football player
- Marcos Llorente (born 1995)Spanish association football player
- Marcos Alonso Mendoza (born 1990)Spanish association football player
- Marcos Senna (born 1976)Brazilian association football player
- Marcos Paulo (born 1977)Brazilian association football player
- Marcos Acuña (born 1991)Argentine association football player
- Marcos Baghdatis (born 1985)Cypriot tennis player
- Marcos Pontes (born 1963)NASA astronaut, 22nd Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (2019–2022) and Senator of the Federative Republic of Brazil since 2023
People named Marcos with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marcos is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marcos is most concentrated in New Mexico (5.5×), Arizona (4.0×), California (3.0×), Texas (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Marcos peaked:
Marcos elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Marcos | 50,535 | 10th |
| France boys | Marcos | 530 | 723rd |
| England and Wales boys | Marcos | 381 | 1,366th |
| Ireland boys | Marcos | 26 | 404th |
| Belgium boys | Marcos | 18 | 1,125th |
| Scotland boys | Marcos | 9 | 305th |
| Poland boys | Marcos | 3 birth registrations | 498th |
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.
Marcos: rank by region
In 1999, Marcos was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Marcos | 235 | 5 |
In 2024, Marcos was among the 10 most common names in 3 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aragón | Marcos | 9 | 60 |
| Cantabria | Marcos | 8 | 25 |
| La Rioja | Marcos | 6 | 15 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – 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.
Marcos 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Marcos | 58 | 99 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Marcos lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 99,544 men called Marcos 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lugo | Marcos | 1,365 | 8.627 | 20 |
| Pontevedra | Marcos | 3,911 | 8.552 | 23 |
| Coruña, A | Marcos | 4,337 | 7.963 | 26 |
| Ourense | Marcos | 1,138 | 7.760 | 25 |
| Asturias | Marcos | 3,532 | 7.290 | 32 |
| León | Marcos | 1,535 | 7.038 | 36 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marcos 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.