Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Marcius 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
Marcius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14
- 14 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1970.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marcius’s family of names
In English usage, Marcius has a feminine form in Marcia. In Italian usage, Marcius as a surname has a related form in MARCHIO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Marcius has relatives in 3 languages.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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