Given name & surname
Markas
Markas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Markas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 151
- 151 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 9 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 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 176 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.
Markas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Markas shares an earlier linguistic root with Mõrkus. In Greek usage, Markas as a surname is a transliteration of Μαρκάς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Markas
- Markas LuckisLithuanian-Argentine chess player (1905-1973)
- MarkulLatvian-born Russian rapperborn 1993
- Markas BenetaLithuanian association football player (born 1993)
- Markas ZingerisLithuanian poet1947–2023
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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