The name Marc is a shortened form of Marcus, a first name of Latin origin. It was derived from the Roman god of war Mars. Marcus and Marc therefore mean ‘dedicated to Mars’.
Marc is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Marc isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Marc ranks 726. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Marc. In the entire USA, approximately 136,110 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marc. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Marc is a shortened form of Marcus, a first name of Latin origin. It was derived from the Roman god of war Mars. Marcus and Marc therefore mean ‘dedicated to Mars’.
Did you know... that the month March is also named after the god Mars? In ancient Rome, most of his festivals were held at this time of the year.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Marc reached its highest rank ever in the year 1970 at #60. In other words: 5,038 newborn boys were named Marc that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Marc is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Marc will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marc was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Marc ranked 1,021 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 195 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Marc will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Marc is one of them. However, Marc is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Rhode Island seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,501 men called Marc who live here are 0,238% of all male residents and push their name up to #87 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Rhode Island. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 136,110 people with the name Marc. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Marc on position 232 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With four letters, the name Marc is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Marc and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marc, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marc
Marc
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
R
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
R
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marc sounds like this:
