girls:
1.6k births since 1934
#4187 (27th percentile)
boys:
336 births since 1926
#4250 (7th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1926
#5859 (24th percentile)
The name Markie is the #5,859 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,903 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 24.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,187 (26.7% percentile) for all time with 1,567 births since 1934. For boys, it ranks #4,250 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 336 births since 1926.
Markie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (1926 for boys and 1934 for girls). Birth data for Markie is available in 60 out of the 98 years between 1926 and 2023. 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 Markie has been given predominantly to girls, with 82.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Markie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1934, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1926 to 1933), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (82.6% girls from 1934 to 2023).
For girls, Markie reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #733) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 65 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Markie ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 12.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Markie reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #742) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Markie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Markie is pronounced as MAHR-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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