Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Marcio isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marcio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 384
- 384 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,509 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +32%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,509 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,501 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marcio’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Marcio has a conventional equivalent in the German form Markus. Marcio has a related form in March.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marcio
- MineiroBrazilian association football playerborn 1969
- TeleBrazilian association football playerborn 1990
- Márcio TelesBrazilian hurdlerborn 1994
- MarcinhoBrazilian association football player (born 1986)
- Marcio Veloz MaggioloDominican anthropologist and archaeologist (1936–2021)
- Marcinhoassociation football playerborn 1996
- Marcinhoassociation football playerborn 1995
- Márcio FerreiraBrazilian footballerborn 1977
- Marcio ValverdePeruvian footballerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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