Marcos
- Pronunciation
- [Mar-cos]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Of Mars. The Roman Fertility God Mars For Whom March Was Named.
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Marcos
Marcos is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcus/Mark (see separate entry on Mark for the Latin Marcus etymology, possibly connected to the Roman god Mars). The Latinate Marcos has been used continuously across Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking Catholic naming traditions for over a millennium.
The name has additional anchoring through the apostle Saint Mark (the Gospel writer Mark, traditionally identified as Mark the Evangelist, the founder of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the writer of the second Synoptic Gospel). Notable bearers include American actor Marcos Echeverria; the iconic Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos (using Marcos as a surname, 1917–1989, the controversial 10th President of the Philippines 1965–1986); contemporary Brazilian soccer player Marcos Reyes; and the contemporary American basketball player Marcos Brown.
Marcos has been continuously used in Spanish-speaking American communities for over a century. The name climbed into the US top 200 boys' rank by 2008 and held a top-300 range since, driven primarily by Spanish-language naming influence. The name's appeal is its layered Latin-Spanish-Catholic-apostolic pedigree combined with two firm syllables — the in-built Saint Mark Gospel-writer religious anchor, the strong contemporary Latino-American cultural recognition, and tonal warmth distinctive to Spanish-language naming. The name reads as both classical-Catholic and contemporary American. Common nicknames Marky (the dominant warm short form, casual and warm), Mark (the related English form), Marco, and the rare Cosi each carry distinct registers; international forms include Mark (English), Marc (French/Catalan), Marco (Italian), Marek (Polish/Czech), Markus (German), and the original Latin Marcus.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Marcos
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Marcos by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2001 with 1,415 boys named Marcos (boy rank #240 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #517 for boys (579 US births). That's 277 places below its 2001 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Marcos Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Marcos the strongest states are New Mexico, California, Texas.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #209 | 113 |
| 2 | California | #295 | 1,265 |
| 3 | Texas | #296 | 1,177 |
| 4 | Arizona | #331 | 228 |
| 5 | Florida | #353 | 486 |
| 6 | Nevada | #379 | 56 |
| 7 | Nebraska | #427 | 35 |
| 8 | Massachusetts | #448 | 88 |
| 9 | Oregon | #461 | 53 |
| 10 | Colorado | #465 | 118 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pennsylvania | #941 | 51 |
| 2 | Michigan | #891 | 46 |
| 3 | Ohio | #841 | 49 |
| 4 | Missouri | #813 | 25 |
| 5 | Minnesota | #731 | 35 |
| 6 | Wisconsin | #725 | 51 |
| 7 | Indiana | #725 | 48 |
| 8 | South Carolina | #659 | 31 |
| 9 | Kentucky | #634 | 25 |
| 10 | Tennessee | #631 | 95 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Marcos in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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