Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Markis 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
Markis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 911
- 911 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,311 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −44%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,311 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 718 as a first name in 2020; 225 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.
Markis’s family of names
In Greek usage, Markis as a surname is a transliteration of Μαρκής.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Markis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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