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Markos

#5,329 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Marcus

Markos has been given to 1,040 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #5,329 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Markos, 2025

1 in 184,000

Markos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Markos: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Marcus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Markos means

Markos is a form of Marcus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,040 boys were recorded with the name Markos between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,814 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,380 in 2020 to #5,329 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,339 in 2015 to #5,329 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.

How common is Markos?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,329
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Markos 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Markos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Markoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Markos was born before 2005 — so the typical Markos is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,040
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (279).

Is Markos 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
+477
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,990
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.9%
Peak was 2008 (41)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,814
1995

Spellings of Markos

Markos is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 58.2% against Markos's 0.04%.

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 Markos is used

Across 1910–2025, Markos was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 407,129 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Markos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Markos around the world

Where Markos 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2021
    #6,917
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Markos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,329
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 51
Best rank ever
#2,814
1995
Peak year
2008
41 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,040
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Markos

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

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Sibling names for Markos

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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