Marcus

At the 2020 census, 16,763 Americans bore the surname Marcus — 2,096th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,800.

By the numbers

People: 16,763
Rank: 2,096th
How common: 1 in 17,800
Per 100,000: 5.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Marcus described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.7%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Hispanic or Latino 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus (1923–2026)Canadian-American chemist
Siegfried Marcus (1831–1898)German-Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer
Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012)American philosopher
Greil Marcus (born 1945)American author, music journalist and cultural critic
Mr. Marcus (born 1970)American pornographic actor
Mickey Marcus (1901–1948)Israeli general
Solomon Marcus (1925–2016)Romanian mathematician
Jürgen Marcus (1948–2018)German singer

People named Marcus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Marcus

Also a first name

Marcus has been given to 242,999 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1984. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.