girls:
162 births since 1926
#5554 (3rd percentile)
boys:
52.3k births since 1888
#484 (89th percentile)
overall:
52.5k births since 1888
#1048 (86th percentile)
The name Marcos is the #1,048 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52,507 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 86.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #484 (89.5% percentile) for all time with 52,345 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,554 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 162 births since 1926.
Marcos first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1926 for girls). Birth data for Marcos is available in 119 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (119 years for boys and 23 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 Marcos has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Marcos reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 72.5% percentile (ranked #241) with 639 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 684 births per million (ranked 71.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marcos ranks #430 for boys (52.9% percentile) with 348 births per million, which is 50.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marcos reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #837) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcos".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marcos. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.0% confident that Marcos is pronounced as MAHR-kohs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-koh-sihz, at 12.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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