Markuss
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Markuss is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 405◐
- ISIceland1 in 29K
- DKDenmark1 in 226K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.7K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 44 ●
- 1 in 405 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
1.9K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 18 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #114 | 4,641△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 405 | 4.7K | Markuss | 44 |
| US United States | — | 97 | 186 rec. | — | — | Markuss | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 78 | 61 rec. | — | 4 | Markuss | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 62 | 75 rec. | — | — | Markuss | 26 |
| FI Finland | — | 45 | 1 rec. | — | 44 | Markuss | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 35△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 292K | 35 | Markuss | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 26 | — | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | 17 | 16 rec. | — | — | Markuss | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 15 | 14 rec. | — | 170 | Markuss | 10 |
| IE Ireland | — | 15 | 17 rec. | — | — | Markuss | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | 14 | 2 rec. | — | 11 | Markuss | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 12 | — | 1 in 29K | 12 | — | — |
Roughly 4.6K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 405). 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●
- Latvian5.6K77%
- English3314%
- Estonian2383%
- Norwegian Bokmål1702%
- German1532%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 5,646 | 77% |
| English | 331 | 4% |
| Estonian | 238 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 170 | 2% |
| German | 153 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Markuss Gailītisb. 1882LVLatvian politician (1882-1942)
- Markuss Komulsb. 1998LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Markuss Vinogradovsb. 2002LVLatvian nordic combined skier
- Markuss Jānis EglītisLVLatvian actor
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.7K | #111 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.6K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 170 | #5,381 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #9,388 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #17,258 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #3,709 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 15 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 12 | #3,250 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Markuss?
- We estimate roughly 4.7 thousand people bear Markuss (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Markuss have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.6 thousand people bear Markuss in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled markuss.
- Where is Markuss most common?
- Markuss is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 405 people carrying it.
- How common is Markuss compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Markuss is the 114th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Markuss a male or female name?
- Markuss 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 Markuss mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
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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, “Markuss” — the 114th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.