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Mark
Pronounced /maːk/
Rank in 2024
#246
Born in 2024
1,437
Peak year
1960 · #6
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,437 boys were named Mark, about 1 in every 1,194.
- It peaked in 1960 with 58,719 babies, ranked #6.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,360,769 boys 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.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 1.1Silent1928–45
- 18.2Boomers1946–64
- 14.2Gen X1965–80
- 5.7Millennials1981–96
- 2.0Gen Z1997–12
- 1.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 10,235 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Silent: 22,307 babies, 1.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 684,309 babies, 18.23 per 1,000. Gen X: 385,211 babies, 14.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 173,441 babies, 5.70 per 1,000. Gen Z: 61,971 babies, 1.97 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 21,277 babies, 0.98 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.