Margus

given name · Estonian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Margus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, variant of Markus (“Mark”).

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 301◐
  • FIFinland1 in 133K
  • ISIceland1 in 58K

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

≈123 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
89 ●

3.4K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 58K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

a male given name, variant of Markus (“Mark”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Margus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#2214,1262.2K rec.—5KMargus89
US United States—170180 rec.—5Margus56
SE Sweden—50△8 rec.1 in 204K50Margus15
FI Finland—4268 rec.1 in 133K1.4KMargus17
GB United Kingdom—3326 rec.——Margus24
BR Brazil—229 rec.——Margus10
LV Latvia#72810815 rec.1 in 188K10Margus7
NL Netherlands—9△4 rec.1 in 1.9M9—2
CA Canada—99 rec.——Margus8
ES Spain—86 rec.——Margus8
VE Venezuela—88 rec.——Margus5
NO Norway—66 rec.—84Margus4

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

Languages●

  • Estonian15K72%
  • Finnish3K15%
  • English1K5%
  • Latvian3011%
  • German1961%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian14,62772%
Finnish2,96815%
English1,0415%
Latvian3011%
German1961%

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◐

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

  • English given name2.4K records spelled Margus7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Estonia, Latvia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marguş, Marguš

  • Russian surname283 records spelled Margus6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Маргус

  • Croatian surname156 records spelled Margus7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Latvia, Estonia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Marguš

  • Hungarian given name89 records spelled Margus2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Estonia, Hungary

    Also written Márgus

  • a separate given name87 records spelled Margus2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States

    Also written Marguš

34 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.

Over time●

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Margus in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199924
200026
200124
200225
200323
200425
200527
200627
200728
200830
200932
201037
201140
201240
201339
201440
201538
201640
201739
201838
201938
202037

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Margus Lepa, b. 1953Margus Leivo, b. 1954Margus Hanson, b. 1958Margus Laidre, b. 1959Margus Metstak, b. 1961Margus Kolga, b. 1966Margus Prangel, b. 1974Margus Hernits, b. 1976Margus Tsahkna, b. 1977Margus Hunt, b. 1987

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 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Margus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—5K#12
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—5K#12
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.4K#1,267
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—120#565
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—113#665
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—84#8,622
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—50#13,569
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47#29,027
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—42—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201640—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201440—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201240—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 48 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Margus?
We estimate roughly 123 people bear Margus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Margus have the most bearers?
Margus is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled margus.
How common is Margus compared with other names?
In Estonia, Margus is the 22nd most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Margus a male or female name?
Margus 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 Margus mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, variant of Markus (“Mark”)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Margus” — the 22nd most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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