Marcus

Where Marcus comes from

Borrowing of Latin Marcus. Doublet of Mark.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marcus
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #241 among boys — 47 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Marcus Garvey born
    Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
  3. 1984
    Peak, #57
    5,996 babies named Marcus — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1997
    Marcus Rashford born
    English footballer
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #145.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Marcus Rashford · English footballer, born 1997
  • Marcus Garvey · Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur, 1887–1940
  • Marcus Tulio Tanaka · Japanese association football player, born 1981
  • Marcus Thuram · French footballer, born 1997
  • Marcus Berg · Swedish association football player, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.