The name Marcus is of Latin origin and was derived from the Roman god of war Mars. Marcus therefore means ‘dedicated to Mars’.
Marcus is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Marcus 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, Marcus ranks 182. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 12 were named Marcus. In the entire USA, approximately 231,162 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marcus. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Marcus is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Marcus for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Marcus is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Marcus is a very special name, which reached its peak of popularity only in the last quarter of the 20th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius statistics: With position 57 Marcus has never been more popular than back in 1984.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marcus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,469 babies were named Marcus in the USA in 2022, ranking it #230 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1939, when it was only ranked at #352 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 231 boys were named Marcus.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Marcus is one of them. However, Marcus is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Mississippi seem to particularly fancy this name – the 6,353 men called Marcus who live here are 0,318% of all male residents and push their name up to #66 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Mississippi. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 231,162 people with the name Marcus. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Marcus on position 157 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 six letters, the name Marcus is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Marcus 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 Marcus, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Cat
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marcus
Marcus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
R
C
U
S
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
U
S
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. Marcus sounds like this:
