Marcus

girls:

1.3k births since 1917

#4383 (23rd percentile)

boys:

238.9k births since 1880

#162 (96th percentile)

overall:

240.2k births since 1880

#335 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcus".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,342
Peak Births
67
Peak Year
1983
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
8.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#569
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
238,888
Peak Births
5,997
Peak Year
1984
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
91.8%
Current Percentile
73.4%
Peak Rank
#57
Current Rank
#243
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Marcus

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Marcus. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Marcus is pronounced as MAHR-kuhs.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Marcus. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Marcus, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAHR-kihs (2 syllables)
9 names 26.9k births
M AA1 R K IH0 S
MAHR-kehz (2 syllables)
5 names 13.9k births
M AA1 R K EH0 Z

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R K AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.