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Mark

Pronounced /maːk/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1961 · #837
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for boys:1,437 in 2024 (#246)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Mark in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1961 with 159 babies, ranked #837.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1892.
  • 4,496 girls have been named Mark since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Mark per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 215 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 134 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,369 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,730 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 894 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 114 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 19 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Mark, from the Latin praenomen (i.e. first name) Mārcus, derived from Mārs, the Roman god of war, originally Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Māwortis.

  • A male given name from Latin.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/maːk/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Mark, CC BY-SA 4.0.