Given name & surname · also Norwegian
Marken
Marken is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Swedish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Marken comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Swedish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marken through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 91
- 91 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,219 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,219 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 681 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.
Marken’s family of names
In English usage, Marken as a surname was borrowed from the Swedish form Markén.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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