first name
MARCUS
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 184,054 people named Marcus, 41.2% reported their origin as Black, 34.8% as White and 13.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Marcus peaked in 1984, when 6,060 babies got the name.
At least 242,999 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Marcus by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #121. The largest share of babies named Marcus, 34%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Marcus is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marcus has been most common in District of Columbia (2.4×), Mississippi (2.1×), and Georgia (1.7×), and least common in Vermont (0.12×).
237,821 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Marcus
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Marcus, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Marcus ranks #2,096 of 156,621, with 16,763 people. See Marcus as a last name
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