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Marek

#2,629 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Mark

Marek has been given to 3,141 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #2,629 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Marek, 2025

1 in 66,300

Marek over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marek: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Mark

Latin

What Marek means

Marek is a English equivalent of Mark.

Origin, language, and formation

Marek is used in Czech, Estonian, Polish and Slovak. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mark and Markus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Marek is pronounced [ˈmarɛk].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,136 boys were recorded with the name Marek between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 145 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,224 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,128 in 2020 to #2,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,500 in 2015 to #2,629 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Marek between 2007 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2007; its best national rank was #19,437 in 2007.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marek?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,629
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marek sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mareks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marek was born before 2008 — so the typical Marek is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,136
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (1,067).

Is Marek rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−136
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−501
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,129
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.5%
Peak was 2010 (145)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,224
2010

Spellings of Marek

Marek is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 51.9% against Marek's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marek is used

Across 2016–2025, Marek was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 36,210 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 10,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 14,286
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 16,667
  4. 4Iowa1 in 25,000
  5. 5Kansas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 25,000
  7. 7California1 in 33,333
  8. 8Arizona1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Marek around the world

Where Marek ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–2015
    #686
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2007–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    1974–2025
    #2,583
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2006
    #483
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Marek

People whose public names include Marek, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marek in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marek. Linked forms have their own page here.

MarcMarkMarcoMarkoMarcosMarcusMarkusMárkMarkkuMárkus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marek by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 501
Best rank ever
#1,224
2010
Peak year
2010
145 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,136
Count in 2025
50

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#19,437
2007
Peak year
2007
5 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marek

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MarloMariaMarkoMariusMartezMarinoMarlowMarinMarkelMarleyMartelTarekMarvelMarwanMarckMarieTyrekMarsMarquelMartellMarlanMarkosJarekMarkell

Names with a curve like Marek

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marek, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AdrianoAndreyNikitaBrighamJaysenAndreiFilipHagenKellerLathanJacobiHyrum

Sibling names for Marek

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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