Marcos

Spellings & scripts●

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, Markus in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and Marek in PL Poland, CZ Czechia.

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●

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Marcos is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.5M records spelled Marcos21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Marcoś, Marcós, 'Marcos, Mářćóŝ, M̷a̷r̷c̷o̷s̷

• Catalan given name136K records spelled Marcos14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, France, Canada

  Languages: Catalan, English, French

  Also written Marcoux

• a separate given name64K records spelled Marcos3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Marco-S, Márcos

• French given name28K records spelled Marcos2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

  Also written Marco'S

• Danish given name4.9K records spelled Marcos8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Norway, Spain

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Mårçoš, Mårcös

79 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●

Marcos 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.

• In English, A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Mark.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, Mark (one of the seventy disciples)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Mark

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Del latín Marcus, derivado de Marte/Mars; nombre ligado al dios de la guerra.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• smith's hammer

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 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●

• Fernando Belaúndeb. 1912PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 (1912-2002)
• Marcos Pérez Jiménezb. 1914VEpresident of Venezuela (1952-1958)
• Marcos Alonso Peñab. 1959ESSpanish football player and manager (1959–2023)
• Marcos Pontesb. 1963BRNASA astronaut, 22nd Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (2019–2022) and Senator of the Federative Republic of Brazil since 2023
• Cafub. 1970BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
• Marcos Rojob. 1990ARArgentine association football player
• Marcos Acuñab. 1991ARArgentine association football player
• Marquinhosb. 1994BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1994)
• Marcos Llorenteb. 1995ESSpanish association football player
• Juan Foythb. 1998ARnot in their usual nameArgentine 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,061 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marcos?

We estimate roughly 3.2 million people bear Marcos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Marcos have the most bearers?

Marcos is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled mark.

Where is Marcos most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marcos is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 84 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.

How common is Marcos compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Marcos is the 13th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Marcos a male or female name?

Marcos 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 Marcos mean?

Recorded meaning: from the personal name Marcos (see Mark 1).