Given name & surname
Marcos
“dedicated to Mars, the god of war”
Marcos is a form of Mark. One Latin interpretation is “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Marcos is a form of Mark. One Latin interpretation is “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Marcos is a form of Mark. An origin associated with Mark is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Romance Marcos, from Spanish Marcos, from Portuguese Marcos.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marcos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 53,742
- 53,580 boys · 162 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 1,415 babies
- 2025
- 579
- #517 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −10%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 579 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 517 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 10.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 1,415 in 2001. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (120). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 71,178 as a first name in 2020; 5,263 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marcos’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Marcos has a diminutive in Marción. Marcos shares a linguistic root with Mark. Marcos has a related form in Marcus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Marcos has relatives in 32 languages.
25 related names in 32 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
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 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marcos
- CafuBrazilian association football playerborn 1970
- MarquinhosBrazilian association football player (born 1994)
- Marcos LlorenteSpanish association football playerborn 1995
- Marcos AlonsoSpanish association football playerborn 1990
- Marcos SennaBrazilian association football playerborn 1976
- Marcos AcuñaArgentine association football playerborn 1991
- Marcos PauloBrazilian association football playerborn 1977
- Marcos PontesNASA astronaut, 22nd Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (2019–2022) and Senator of the Federative Republic of Brazil since 2023born 1963
- Marcos SenesiArgentine association football player (born 1997)
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