Marx
#13,224 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marx has been given to 335 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #13,224 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Marx, 2025
1 in 663,000
Marx 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marx?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,224
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marx sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marx. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marxs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marx was born before 1975 — so the typical Marx is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 17.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 246
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Marx 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,580
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.3%
- Peak was 2015 (16)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Marx
Marx is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 32.5% against Marx'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 Marx is used
Across 1910–2025, Marx was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,490,386 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Marx has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marx around the world
Where Marx 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.
- France1900–1945#666in 1945
- South Australia1966–1966#536in 1966
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marx by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Marx
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marx
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.