Markku
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Markku is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Markku är en finsk form av → Marcus (se även → Marco).
- FIFinland1 in 156◐
- SESweden1 in 6.9K
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 8.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈37K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 111 ●
- 1 in 156 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
10K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marku in CH Switzerland, HR Croatia, BE Belgium and 5 more, Марку in MK North Macedonia and Маркку in RU Russia.
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●
Markku är en finsk form av → Marcus (se även → Marco).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 19 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #56 | 35,654△ | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 156 | 49K | Markku | 111 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,476△ | 247 rec. | 1 in 6.9K | 1.5K | Markku | 38 |
| US United States | — | 953 | 814 rec. | — | 852 | Markku | 88 |
| HR Croatia | — | 361 | 101 rec. | — | 66 | Marku | 16 |
| EE Estonia | #914 | 312 | 103 rec. | — | 27 | Markku | 14 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 144 | 20 rec. | — | 19 | Marku | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 127 | 84 rec. | — | — | Markku | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | 103 | 89 rec. | — | — | Marku | 15 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 88 | 0 rec. | — | 88 | Марку | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 75 | 23 rec. | — | — | Маркку | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 59 | 25 rec. | — | — | Markku | 12 |
| CA Canada | — | 57 | 51 rec. | — | — | Markku | 15 |
Roughly 36K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 156). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish196K92%
- Chinese3.9K2%
- English2.9K1%
- Portuguese1.8K1%
- German1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 195,505 | 92% |
| Chinese | 3,893 | 2% |
| English | 2,859 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 1,792 | 1% |
| German | 1,115 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,465 |
| 2000 | 1,460 |
| 2001 | 1,447 |
| 2002 | 1,432 |
| 2003 | 1,427 |
| 2004 | 1,414 |
| 2005 | 1,410 |
| 2006 | 1,398 |
| 2007 | 1,386 |
| 2008 | 1,372 |
| 2009 | 1,360 |
| 2010 | 1,333 |
| 2011 | 1,321 |
| 2012 | 1,307 |
| 2013 | 1,295 |
| 2014 | 1,277 |
| 2015 | 1,254 |
| 2016 | 1,227 |
| 2017 | 1,205 |
| 2018 | 1,188 |
| 2019 | 1,174 |
| 2020 | 1,153 |
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●
- Markku Envallb. 1944FIFinnish writer
- Markku Arob. 1950FIFinnish singer
- Markku Alénb. 1951FIrally driver, winner of the 1978 FIA Cup for Rally Drivers
- Mato Valtonenb. 1955FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician and actor
- Markku Peltolab. 1956FIFinnish actor and musician (1956–2007)
- Markku Kanervab. 1964FIFinnish association football manager (born 1964)
- Markku Impiöb. 1965FIFinnish composer
- Markku Uusipaavalniemib. 1966FIcurler and politician
- Alexi Laihob. 1979FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician (1979–2020)
- Markku Koskib. 1981FIFinnish snowboarder
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 49K | #73 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 36K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,296 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.4K | — |
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 · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Markku?
- We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Markku (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Markku have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 36 thousand people bear Markku in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled markku.
- Where is Markku most common?
- Markku is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 156 people carrying it.
- How common is Markku compared with other names?
- In Finland, Markku is the 56th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Markku a male or female name?
- Markku 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 Markku mean?
- Recorded meaning: Markku är en finsk form av → Marcus (se även → Marco).
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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.
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, “Markku” — the 56th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.