Mrk
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mrk has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1987, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Mrk, 1987
1 in 401,000
Mrk 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mrk?
Mrk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 401,000
- 9 of 3,605,072 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 207,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 277,651 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mrk sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 277,651 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mrk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mrks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mrk was born before 1968 — so the typical Mrk is around 57 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 36.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 85
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Mrk 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (9)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.9% average annual change
Mrk around the world
Where Mrk 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.
- South Australia1967–1967#552in 1967
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mrk by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Sibling names for Mrk
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.