girls:
4.5k births since 1892
#2537 (56th percentile)
boys:
1.4M births since 1880
#18 (100th percentile)
overall:
1.4M births since 1880
#24 (100th percentile)
The name Mark is the #24 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,363,786 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #18 (99.6% percentile) for all time with 1,359,290 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,537 (55.6% percentile) for all time with 4,496 births since 1892.
Mark has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1892 for girls).
The name Mark has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mark reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 99.2% percentile (ranked #6) with 26,785 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 27,123 births per million (ranked 99.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1962, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mark ranks #245 for boys (73.2% percentile) with 757 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mark reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 20.0% percentile (ranked #598) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 92 births per million (ranked 20.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 1996, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Mark ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mark".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mark. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mark is pronounced as mahrk, which has 1 syllables.
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