Marcus
Marcus is ranked 256th among boys in 2024 (1,376 births). Its best rank was 57th, in 1984.
- Rank in 2024
- #256down 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3760.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 19845,996 births
- Best rank
- #57in 1984
- Since 1880
- 241,642people given the name
The story in the numbers
240,300 boys have been named Marcus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 5,996 births — 0.33% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 157 → 256).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 22%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,342 girls have also been given it, 0.56% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Marcus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 424 | |
| 1890s | 405 | |
| 1900s | 482 | |
| 1910s | 2,051 | |
| 1920s | 3,029 | |
| 1930s | 2,298 | |
| 1940s | 3,266 | |
| 1950s | 8,694 | |
| 1960s | 14,546 | |
| 1970s | 39,469 | |
| 1980s | 51,810 | |
| 1990s | 46,496 | |
| 2000s | 35,670 | |
| 2010s | 24,133 | |
| 2020s | 7,527 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Marcus was the 57th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1984 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Marcus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aaronpeak 1989
- Derickpeak 1989
- Matthewpeak 1983
- Laronpeak 1990
- Demetriuspeak 1991
- Kenrickpeak 1990
- Jaimepeak 1980
- Dainpeak 1978
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.