Marc
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marc is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Marcus, from Latin Mars, the Roman god of war.
- 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 ●
- #17 ●
- 11 ●
- Sources
- 641 ●
- 1 in 84 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
27M records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
French form of Marcus, from Latin Mars, the Roman god of war.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #13 | 1,591,083 | 1.2M rec. | — | 34 | Mark | 368 |
| AR Argentina | #122 | 1,457,941 | 899K rec. | — | 6.2K | Marcos | 187 |
| PH Philippines | #5 | 1,155,943 | 692K rec. | — | — | Mark | 227 |
| US United States | #16 | 1,134,407 | 16M rec. | 1 in 293 | 1.1M | Mark | 641 |
| BR Brazil | #10 | 1,082,739△ | 386K rec. | 1 in 196 | 1.1M | Marcos | 275 |
| IN India | #746 | 1,082,727 | 610K rec. | — | 56K | Manik | 184 |
| MX Mexico | #48 | 1,053,110 | 851K rec. | — | 729 | Marco | 261 |
| DE Germany | #10 | 886,777 | 780K rec. | — | 1 | Markus | 308 |
| AU Australia | #10 | 844,400 | 587K rec. | — | 109 | Mark | 371 |
| PE Peru | #43 | 632,270 | 518K rec. | — | 97K | Marco | 131 |
| RU Russia | #127 | 461,742 | 249K rec. | — | #59 | Марк | 183 |
| CA Canada | #12 | 438,360 | 421K rec. | — | 40 | Mark | 296 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French1.8M37%
- English1.7M35%
- Spanish432K9%
- German327K7%
- Catalan76K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 1,771,763 | 37% |
| English | 1,702,254 | 35% |
| Spanish | 431,511 | 9% |
| German | 327,110 | 7% |
| Catalan | 76,189 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Marc is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French form of Mark, now also quite popular in the English-speaking world. It was given some currency in England in the 1960s by the pop singer Marc Bolan.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, pomace, marc
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du latin Marcus, probablement lié à Mars; fêté le 25 avril (saint Marc, évangéliste).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin Marcus, probablement lié au dieu Mars.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1901 | 5 |
| 1902 | 10 |
| 1903 | 10 |
| 1904 | 15 |
| 1905 | 15 |
| 1906 | 20 |
| 1907 | 10 |
| 1908 | 15 |
| 1909 | 15 |
| 1910 | 20 |
| 1911 | 20 |
| 1912 | 15 |
| 1913 | 20 |
| 1914 | 20 |
| 1915 | 15 |
| 1916 | 20 |
| 1917 | 20 |
| 1918 | 20 |
| 1919 | 20 |
| 1920 | 25 |
| 1921 | 35 |
| 1922 | 35 |
| 1923 | 40 |
| 1924 | 40 |
| 1925 | 30 |
| 1926 | 45 |
| 1927 | 40 |
| 1928 | 35 |
| 1929 | 40 |
| 1930 | 40 |
| 1931 | 40 |
| 1932 | 45 |
| 1933 | 40 |
| 1934 | 40 |
| 1935 | 40 |
| 1936 | 50 |
| 1937 | 55 |
| 1938 | 45 |
| 1939 | 60 |
| 1940 | 65 |
| 1941 | 45 |
| 1942 | 45 |
| 1943 | 60 |
| 1944 | 60 |
| 1945 | 40 |
| 1946 | 30 |
| 1947 | 60 |
| 1948 | 45 |
| 1949 | 40 |
| 1950 | 60 |
| 1951 | 40 |
| 1952 | 60 |
| 1953 | 45 |
| 1954 | 30 |
| 1955 | 45 |
| 1956 | 40 |
| 1957 | 40 |
| 1958 | 40 |
| 1959 | 30 |
| 1960 | 20 |
| 1961 | 35 |
| 1962 | 30 |
| 1963 | 30 |
| 1964 | 25 |
| 1965 | 25 |
| 1966 | 25 |
| 1967 | 25 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 20 |
| 1970 | 20 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 15 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 20 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 25 |
| 1989 | 20 |
| 1990 | 20 |
| 1991 | 20 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 25 |
| 1994 | 30 |
| 1995 | 30 |
| 1996 | 20 |
| 1997 | 20 |
| 1998 | 20 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marc Chagallb. 1887FRBelarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
- Mark Rothkob. 1903USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970)
- Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourgb. 1921LUnot in their usual nameMonarch of Luxembourg (1964-2000)
- Marc Ravalomananab. 1949MGPresident of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009
- Roch Marc Christian Kaboréb. 1957BFformer President of Burkina Faso ousted in a coup d'état on 23 Jan 2022
- Marc Macaulayb. 1957USAmerican actor
- Marc Shaimanb. 1959USAmerican composer and songwriter (born 1959)
- Marc Overmarsb. 1973NLDutch association football player (born 1973)
- Thibaut Courtoisb. 1992BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 1992)
- Marc Cucurellab. 1998ESSpanish association football player
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 117 sources across 62 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,525 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marc?
- We estimate roughly 3.2 million people bear Marc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marc have the most bearers?
- Marc is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled mark.
- Where is Marc most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marc is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 84 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Marc compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Marc is the 13th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- Is Marc a male or female name?
- Marc is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Marc mean?
- Recorded meaning: French form of Marcus, from Latin Mars, the Roman god of war.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marc” — the 13th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.