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Marky

Boys' name

Diminutive of Mark

Marky has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 2003, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Marky, 2013

1 in 608,000

Marky over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marky: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Mark

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marky means

Marky is a diminutive of Mark.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marky is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɑɹ.ki/ and /ˈmɑː.ki/ for Marky.

Origin, language, and formation

Marky comes through Indonesian diminutive.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mark.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Marky between 1963 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2003; its best national rank was #4,235 in 1969.

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 Marky?

Marky had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marky 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marky. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Markys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marky was born before 1982 — so the typical Marky is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
84
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Marky 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 2003 (7)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,235
1969

Spellings of Marky

Marky is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 31.5% against Marky's <0.01%.

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 Marky is used

Across 1910–2025, Marky was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,210,576 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Marky has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marky around the world

Where Marky 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
    2016–2016
    #4,023
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Marky by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,235
1969
Peak year
2003
7 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marky

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

MarkenMarkaiMariMartaeMartiMarielMarikMarksMarselMarceMarshMarsaiMarteMarzMartaMarchMarkeMarleeMaratMarceauMareoMarkhiMarckMarne

Sibling names for Marky

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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