Markese
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Markese has been given to 1,165 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Markese, 2024
1 in 223,000
Markese over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Markese?
Markese had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 223,000
- 15 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 154,471 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Markese sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 154,471 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Markese. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Markeses were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Markese was born before 1999 — so the typical Markese is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,165
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (395).
Is Markese 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (52)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Markese
Markese is not the most common spelling — Markus is, with 49.6% against Markese's 3.9%.
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 Markese is used
Across 1910–2025, Markese was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 604,497 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6Missouri1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 in —
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. Markese has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Markese by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Markese
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Markese
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.