Marks

At the 2020 census, 47,331 Americans bore the surname Marks — 707th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,315.

By the numbers

People: 47,331
Rank: 707th
How common: 1 in 6,315
Per 100,000: 15.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Marks

Hannah Marks (born 1993)American actress
David Marks (born 1944)American musician
Howard Marks (1945–2016)Welsh author and drug smuggler
Caroline Marks (born 2002)American professional surfer
Sean Marks (born 1975)New Zealand basketball player
Heather Marks (born 1987)Canadian model
Tobin J. Marks (born 1944)American chemist
Howard Marks (born 1946)American businessman

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

Surnames like Marks

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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.