girls:
339 births since 1939
#5377 (6th percentile)
boys:
74.8k births since 1910
#380 (92nd percentile)
overall:
75.2k births since 1910
#833 (89th percentile)
The name Marco is the #833 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75,188 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 89.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #380 (91.7% percentile) for all time with 74,849 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,377 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 339 births since 1939.
Marco first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1939 for girls).
The name Marco has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Marco reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 78.8% percentile (ranked #186) with 994 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 1,020 births per million (ranked 78.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marco ranks #358 for boys (60.8% percentile) with 455 births per million, which is 44.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marco reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #739) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marco".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Marco. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Marco is pronounced as MAHR-koh, which has 2 syllables.
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