Mark

Where Mark comes from

From Middle English Mark, from the Latin praenomen (i.e. first name) Mārcus, derived from Mārs, the Roman god of war, originally Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Māwortis.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mark
  • Latin
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1835
    Mark Twain born
    American author and humorist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #160 among boys — 85 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1960
    Peak, #6
    58,727 babies named Mark — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #13.
  5. 1984
    Mark Zuckerberg born
    American Internet entrepreneur
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Mark Twain · American author and humorist, 1835–1910
  • Mark Zuckerberg · American Internet entrepreneur, born 1984
  • Mark Rutte · Secretary General of NATO since 2024 and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, born 1967
  • Mark Wahlberg · American actor, born 1971
  • Mark Carney · 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025, born 1965

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.