Marcos
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #14,179 · #516 for boys in 2025, 579 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 1,350 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 53,580since 1888
Marcos over time
Rank among boys' names. Marcos has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #516 | 579 | |
| 2024 | — | #479 | 643 | |
| 2023 | — | #475 | 640 | |
| 2022 | — | #491 | 619 | |
| 2021 | — | #490 | 602 | |
| 2020 | — | #480 | 621 | |
| 2019 | — | #454 | 658 | |
| 2018 | — | #432 | 706 | |
| 2017 | — | #425 | 732 | |
| 2016 | — | #431 | 722 | |
| 2015 | — | #408 | 762 | |
| 2014 | — | #405 | 769 | |
| 2013 | — | #362 | 870 | |
| 2012 | — | #344 | 893 | |
| 2011 | — | #340 | 891 | |
| 2010 | — | #312 | 1,027 | |
| 2009 | — | #280 | 1,212 | |
| 2008 | — | #261 | 1,349 | |
| 2007 | — | #254 | 1,388 | |
| 2006 | — | #248 | 1,386 | |
| 2005 | — | #246 | 1,360 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #244 | 1,369 |
| 2003 | — | #241 | 1,379 | |
| 2002 | — | #247 | 1,328 | |
| 2001 | — | #240 | 1,415 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #239 | 1,407 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #242 | 1,316 |
| 1998 | — | #236 | 1,341 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #234 | 1,320 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #224 | 1,350 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #249 | 1,144 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #253 | 1,139 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #257 | 1,113 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #263 | 1,077 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #264 | 1,028 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #273 | 963 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #300 | 805 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #310 | 727 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #306 | 705 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #284 | 738 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #284 | 725 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #300 | 665 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #295 | 672 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #316 | 623 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #304 | 632 |
| 1980 | — | #308 | 630 | |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #339 | 531 |
| 1978 | — | #332 | 528 | |
| 1977 | — | #339 | 527 | |
| 1976 | — | #359 | 451 | |
| 1975 | — | #334 | 521 | |
| 1974 | — | #357 | 463 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #362 | 454 |
| 1972 | — | #390 | 406 | |
| 1971 | — | #426 | 362 | |
| 1970 | — | #427 | 367 | |
| 1969 | — | #446 | 308 | |
| 1968 | — | #467 | 265 | |
| 1967 | — | #478 | 248 | |
| 1966 | — | #544 | 199 | |
| 1965 | — | #490 | 245 | |
| 1964 | — | #527 | 220 | |
| 1963 | — | #578 | 187 | |
| 1962 | — | #575 | 186 | |
| 1961 | — | #593 | 177 | |
| 1960 | — | #609 | 165 | |
| 1959 | — | #623 | 153 | |
| 1958 | — | #678 | 126 | |
| 1957 | — | #714 | 109 | |
| 1956 | — | #720 | 103 | |
| 1955 | — | #708 | 107 | |
| 1954 | — | #725 | 99 | |
| 1953 | — | #738 | 94 | |
| 1952 | — | #721 | 95 | |
| 1951 | — | #775 | 82 | |
| 1950 | — | #706 | 94 | |
| 1949 | — | #749 | 84 | |
| 1948 | — | #789 | 75 | |
| 1947 | — | #975 | 53 | |
| 1946 | — | #793 | 70 | |
| 1945 | — | #864 | 52 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,018 | 41 | |
| 1943 | — | #998 | 45 | |
| 1942 | — | #970 | 47 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,019 | 40 | |
| 1940 | — | #919 | 48 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,015 | 39 | |
| 1938 | — | #977 | 42 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,288 | 27 | |
| 1936 | — | #989 | 40 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,098 | 35 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,059 | 38 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,013 | 40 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,035 | 41 | |
| 1931 | — | #869 | 54 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,053 | 43 | |
| 1929 | — | #975 | 48 | |
| 1928 | — | #927 | 53 | |
| 1927 | — | #937 | 54 | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | #1,242 | 34 |
| 1925 | — | #1,012 | 46 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,071 | 44 | |
| 1923 | — | #930 | 54 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,333 | 30 | |
| 1921 | — | #939 | 56 | |
| 1920 | — | #987 | 48 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,159 | 36 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,286 | 30 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,062 | 39 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,549 | 21 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,372 | 24 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,101 | 27 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,497 | 13 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,417 | 12 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,387 | 7 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #1,113 | 7 | |
| 1907 | — | #1,200 | 6 | |
| 1906 | — | #1,004 | 7 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,002 | 7 | |
| 1904 | — | #1,064 | 6 | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #1,031 | 5 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Marcos! It came in at #1,031, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1903, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Marcos
- 37 spots since 2024 (#479 → #516)
- 36 spots since 2020 (#480 → #516)
- 108 spots since 2015 (#408 → #516)
- Biggest jump: 403 spots in 1923 (#1,333 → #930)
- Biggest drop: 394 spots in 1922 (#939 → #1,333)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1996 at #224 (1,350 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 93 yrs · run 1945–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,373 boys born in 2001 were named Marcos (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,950 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #224 in 1996, was only 1 in 1,403 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.4% of all boys named Marcos (13,593) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,031 (1888) | #1,031 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 33 | #1,002 (1905) | #1,077 |
| 1910s | 209 | #1,062 (1917) | #1,314 |
| 1920s | 467 | #927 (1928) | #1,035 |
| 1930s | 399 | #869 (1931) | #1,040 |
| 1940s | 555 | #749 (1949) | #909 |
| 1950s | 1,062 | #623 (1959) | #711 |
| 1960s | 2,200 | #446 (1969) | #531 |
| 1970s | 4,610 | #332 (1978) | #367 |
| 1980s | 6,922 | #284 (1986) | #301 |
| 1990s | 11,791 | #224 (1996) | #250 |
| 2000s | 13,593 | #239 (2000) | #250 |
| 2010s | 8,030 | #312 (2010) | #391 |
| 2020s | 3,704 | #475 (2023) | #489 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marcos in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 348,142 of them was named Marcos, which outranked 15.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,439 names at #13,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 1,428 of them was named Marcos, which outranked 97.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.