Given name & surname
Markey
“dedicated to Mars, the god of war”
Markey is a variant of Mark. One Latin interpretation is “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Markey is a variant of Mark. One Latin interpretation is “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Markey is a variant of Mark. An origin associated with Mark is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Irish Ó Marcaigh (“descendant of Marcach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Markey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 289
- 284 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 15 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 7 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 353 as a first name in 2020; 4,860 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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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