girls:
533 births since 1946
#5183 (9th percentile)
boys:
140.3k births since 1901
#237 (95th percentile)
overall:
140.8k births since 1901
#528 (93rd percentile)
The name Marc is the #528 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,786 recorded births since 1901. This represents the 93.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #237 (94.8% percentile) for all time with 140,253 births since 1901. For girls, it ranks #5,183 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 533 births since 1946.
Marc first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1901 (1901 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Marc is available in 115 out of the 123 years between 1901 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 46 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marc has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Marc reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 91.2% percentile (ranked #60) with 2,631 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 2,631 births per million (ranked 91.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marc ranks #725 for boys (20.4% percentile) with 104 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marc reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #753) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marc".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Marc. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Marc is pronounced as mahrk, which has 1 syllables.
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