Marak

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Marak is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. from a pet form of the personal names Martin or Marek.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 84◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 85
  • PLPoland1 in 104

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.2M ●

across 10 countries

#17 ●

of 16M given names

11 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
641 ●

27M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 84 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

MarkLatin · English●17M records
МаркCyrillic · Russian●517K records
מרקHebrew · Hebrew●68K records
মানিকBengali · Bangla●7.9K records
ΜαρκοςGreek · Greek●1.6K records
ՄարկArmenian · Armenian●1.5K records
ᲛარკGeorgian · Georgian●713 records
ማርቆስEthiopic · Amharic●640 records
มีรักThai · Thai●101 records
마코Hangul · Korean●1 records
මාරකSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mark in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Marco in MX Mexico, PE Peru, IT Italy and 4 more, Marcos in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 1 more and Markus in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

1. from a pet form of the personal names Martin or Marek. 2. (Marak): name for a man who was the son or husband of a woman called Mari, a pet form of Marie (see Maria).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Marak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#131,591,0831.2M rec.—34Mark368
AR Argentina#1221,457,941899K rec.—6.2KMarcos187
PH Philippines#51,155,943692K rec.——Mark227
US United States#161,134,40716M rec.1 in 2931.1MMark641
BR Brazil#101,082,739△386K rec.1 in 1961.1MMarcos275
IN India#7461,082,727610K rec.—56KManik184
MX Mexico#481,053,110851K rec.—729Marco261
DE Germany#10886,777780K rec.—1Markus308
AU Australia#10844,400587K rec.—109Mark371
PE Peru#43632,270518K rec.—97KMarco131
RU Russia#127461,742249K rec.—#59Марк183
CA Canada#12438,360421K rec.—40Mark296

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi366K75%
  • English28K6%
  • Thai17K4%
  • Indonesian13K3%
  • Bangla12K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi365,88875%
English27,9106%
Thai17,4714%
Indonesian13,0723%
Bangla11,9252%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marak is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname3.1K records spelled Marak5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Märak, Marák, Mařák, Maråk

  • Czech surname1.7K records spelled Marak6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, India, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Marák, Mařák, Mařak

  • Lithuanian surname82 records spelled Marak3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Mařák

  • a separate surname47 records spelled Marak2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Norway

    Also written Maråk

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, thin and pale (esp. of the face)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Marak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—222K#2
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—56K#287
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010582#38,103
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020560#41,826
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000556#37,640
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45#112,812
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202142#14,866
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202132—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202628—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—28#73,044
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202622—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—22#85,053

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 97 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marak?
We estimate roughly 3.2 million people bear Marak (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Marak have the most bearers?
Marak is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled mark.
Where is Marak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marak is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 84 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Marak compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Marak is the 13th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
What does the name Marak mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. from a pet form of the personal names Martin or Marek.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marak” — the 13th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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