Marek

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, 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●

Attested across 11 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◐

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

• German given name36K records spelled Marek5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Austria, United States, Poland

  Also written Marék, Mãrek

• French given name13K records spelled Marek5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Marék, Márek, Màrék

• Croatian given name3.2K records spelled Marek10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Марек, Маrек

• Italian given name1.3K records spelled Marek3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, France

  Also written Mãrek, Marèk

• Hungarian given name989 records spelled Marek3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United Kingdom, United States, Slovenia

  Also written Marék, Marèk

64 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●

Marek 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.

• from a pet form of the personal name Martin.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Swedish, Marek är en västslavisk och estnisk form av → Marcus.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, 1724+101 Belege; slawisches Patronym zu Rufname Marcus, in Dtld. verstreut.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

• In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., polnische, slowakische und tschechische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, "destruction."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 67 years between 1956–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Marek Edelmanb. 1922PL(1919–2009) Jewish resistance member
• Marek Belkab. 1952PLPolish economist and politician
• Paweł Huelleb. 1957PLnot in their usual namePolish writer (1957-2023)
• Marek Jankulovskib. 1977CZCzech association football player
• Marek Heinzb. 1977CZCzech footballer
• Marek Mintálb. 1977SKSlovak footballer and manager
• Marek Čechb. 1983SKSlovak footballer
• Łukasz Fabiańskib. 1985PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
• Marek Hamšíkb. 1987SKSlovak footballer (born 1987)
• Paweł Dawidowiczb. 1995PLnot in their usual namePolish 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 · 535 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marek?

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

In which country does Marek have the most bearers?

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

Where is Marek most common?

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

How common is Marek compared with other names?

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

Is Marek a male or female name?

Marek 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 Marek mean?

Recorded meaning: from the West Slavic personal name Marek, a vernacular form of Latin Marcus (see Mark).