Markus

Where Markus comes from

Rare spelling variant of Marcus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Markus
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,082 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Markus Söder born
    German politician (CSU)
  3. 1979
    Markus Persson born
    Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang
  4. 1990
    Peak, #495
    386 babies named Markus — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,098.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Markus Persson · Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang, born 1979
  • Markus Söder · German politician (CSU), born 1967
  • Markus Babbel · German association football player and manager, born 1972
  • Markus Wolf · Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War, 1923–2006
  • Markus Zusak · Australian author, born 1975

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.