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Marko

#2,069 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mark

Marko has been given to 4,439 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #2,069 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Marko, 2025

1 in 46,000

Marko over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marko: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mark

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marko means

Marko is a form of Mark.

Origin, language, and formation

Marko is used in English, Albanian, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, German, Serbo-Croatian and Slovak and additional language sections.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mark, Markus, Marco and Marc.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Marko is pronounced /ˈmarko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,439 boys were recorded with the name Marko between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,174 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,860 in 2020 to #2,069 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,608 in 2015 to #2,069 in 2025.

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 Marko?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,069
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marko 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Markos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marko was born before 2002 — so the typical Marko is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,244
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (1,041).

Is Marko 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
−198
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−209
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−461
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.2%
Peak was 2006 (138)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,174
1981

Spellings of Marko

Marko is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 61.1% against Marko's 0.20%.

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 Marko is used

Across 2016–2025, Marko was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 20,759 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 5,556
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Ohio1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 20,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 25,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  8. 8Florida1 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.

Marko around the world

Where Marko 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
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2003–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1965–2025
    #2,160
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #417
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #499
    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 Marko

People whose public names include Marko, 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.

Marko in other languages

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

MarcMarkMarcoMarekMarcosMarcusMarkusMárkMarkkoMarkkuMárkus

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

Marko by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,069
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 209
Best rank ever
#1,174
1981
Peak year
2006
138 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,439
Count in 2025
72

Names similar to Marko

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

MariaMarloMarekMarkelMartezMarleyMariusMarinoMarlowMarinMarkellMarcellMarshalMartelMarquezMarvelMarwanMarckMarieMarsMarkusMartyMarquelMartell

Names with a curve like Marko

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

CyVladimirObedPaoloSkyZachJobAjayAmmonKonradJohannPatricio

Sibling names for Marko

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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