Name
MARK

Name MARK

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 1,593,831 births of Mark in the countries below, which represents an average of 11,224 births of children bearing the first name Mark per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 3,621 births.

Other languages  :  
En Français Prénom Mark   
In Italiano Nome Mark   
Available variants : Márk , Màrk
Variation : Marc


Information about the first name Mark

The first name Mark is listed in our categories :The first name Mark has been assigned to:
99.88% to boys
0.12% to girls
The country where the first name Mark is the most common is:
US United State of America
This first name is on trend: Male
This first name has 4 letters including 1 vowel and 3 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Mark

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Mark : Akrm, Kamr, Karm, Kmar, Kram

Anacyclics of the first name Mark

An anacyclic is a word or phrase that can be read in the normal sense of reading or in the opposite direction. Here is the list of names that are anonymous of the given name Mark: Kram

Mark in Japanese *

Romajimaaku
Katakanaマーク
Hiraganaまーく
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Mark in Japanese
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Mark in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Mark

US English
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  • From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka.
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  • From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German.
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  • An alternate form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.
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  • mark (plural marks)
  • (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
  • (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
  • (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
  • (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
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  • mark
  • (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
  • Mark time, mark!
  • Forward, mark!
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  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /maːk/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɑː(ɹ)k/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɑɹk/
  • Homophones: mark, marque
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
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  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɑːk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɑɹk/
  • (India) IPA(key): /mɑː(ɾ)k/
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /mæɹk/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
  • Homophones: Mark, marque (general), mock (non-rhotic with father-bother merger)
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  • (Markarian): Mark.
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  • (Markarian):
  • Mkr, Mkr., MKR
  • Mrk, Mrk., MRK
  • Mkn, Mkn., MKN
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  • Translingual: markmitchelli
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FR French
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  • mark m (plural marks)
  • mark (currency)
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  • IPA(key): /maʁk/
General
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  • Mark
  • (astronomy) Abbreviation of Markarian.
Afrikaans
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  • mark (plural markte or marke)
  • market
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  • IPA(key): /mark/
Icelandic
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  • From Old Norse mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką.
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  • mark n (genitive singular marks, nominative plural mörk)
  • sign, mark
  • target, aim, mark
  • (sports) goal
  • (numismatics) mark
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  • IPA(key): /mar̥k/
  • Rhymes: -ar̥k
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  • merki
Old Swedish
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  • From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō.
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  • Swedish: mark
SE Swedish
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  • From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).
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  • mark c or f
  • (uncountable) ground (as opposed to the sky or the sea)
  • Ha fast mark under fötterna - to be on terra firma (literally "to have firm ground under (one's) feet")
  • Tillbaka på klassisk mark - back on classical ground
  • På engelsk mark - on English soil
  • (countable, uncountable) ground, field
  • Bonden ägde mycket mark - The farmer owned a lot of land
  • mark (currency)
  • (gambling) counter, marker
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  • (singular)
  • IPA(key): /mark/
  • (plural)
  • IPA(key): (gambling sense) /ˈmarkɛr/
  • IPA(key): (other senses) /ˈmarˌkɛr/
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  • ta mark
  • i skog och mark
NL Dutch
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  • From Middle Dutch marke, from Old Dutch [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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  • IPA(key): /mɑrk/
  • Hyphenation: Mark
  • Rhymes: -ɑrk
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  • IPA(key): /mɑrk/
  • Hyphenation: mark
  • Rhymes: -ɑrk
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  • markgraaf
  • markgravin
DK Danish
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  • From Old Norse mǫrk (“wilderness”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (“border land, marches”).
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  • From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (currency), originally the same word as the previous one.
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  • mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite marker)
  • field (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals)
  • Synonym: ager
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  • mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite mark)
  • (historical) mark (unit of currency, in Denmark from the Middle Ages until 1875, in Germany and Finland until 2002)
  • (historical) mark (unit of weight, especially of precious metals, equivalent to half a pound or 8 ounces)
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  • IPA(key): /mark/, [ˈmɑːɡ̊]
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DE German
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  • From Middle High German marc, from Old High German marg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos.
  • Cognate with Dutch merg, English marrow, Swedish märg, Norwegian Bokmål marg, Icelandic mergur, Sanskrit मज्जन् (majjan), Russian мозг (mozg, “marrow, brain”), Polish mózg (“brain”).
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  • Mark f (genitive Mark, plural Mark)
  • mark (any of various European monetary units)
  • (historical, informal) Ellipsis of Deutsche Mark.
  • (historical, East Germany, 1968–1990) Ellipsis of Mark der DDR.
  • Synonyms: Ostmark, Mark-Ost, M
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  • Mark m (strong, genitive Markes or Marks, no plural)
  • Alternative form of Merk (“water parsnip”)
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  • IPA(key): [maʁk], [mark], [maɐ̯k]
  • , ,
NO Norwegian Nynorsk
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  • mork (non-standard since 1938)
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  • mork (non-standard since 1938)
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  • mark m (definite singular marken, indefinite plural markar, definite plural markane)
  • a worm (invertebrate)
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  • mark n (definite singular market, indefinite plural mark, definite plural marka)
  • a mark
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  • IPA(key): /mɑrk/
NO Norwegian Bokmål
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  • mark m (definite singular marken, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)
  • a worm (invertebrate)
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Popularity of the name Mark

Number of MARK births per year

Popularity of the name Mark
Popularity of the name Mark

Total births of Mark by country

Births with the first name Mark
Country
Boys
Girls
USUnited State of America
1880 - 2022
1,356,581
1,882
AUAustralia
1930 - 2022
75,926
1
ONOntario
1913 - 2019
49,747
0
IEIreland
1964 - 2022
28,411
0
NZNew Zealand
1900 - 2022
25,117
0
BCBritish Columbia
1919 - 2022
10,692
0
GBUnited Kingdom
1996 - 2021
10,282
0
DKDenmark
1985 - 2022
5,644
0
SISlovenia
1992 - 2022
4,168
0
ABAlberta
1980 - 2022
3,943
0
CHSwitzerland
1909 - 2021
3,622
0
NSNew Scotland
1920 - 2022
3,166
0
FRFrance
1900 - 2022
2,152
0
DEGermany
2000 - 2022
1,795
0
MDMoldova
2016 - 2022
1,722
0
QCQuebec
1980 - 2022
1,445
5
PLPoland
2000 - 2022
1,443
0
BRBrazil
1930 - 2022
1,360
0
ATAustria
1984 - 2021
1,299
0
NONorway
1945 - 2022
828
0
ITItaly
1999 - 2021
642
0
EEEstonia
1931 - 2022
475
0
NLNetherlands
2015 - 2022
453
0
SESweden
1998 - 2022
300
0
BEBelgium
1995 - 2022
212
0
CZCzechoslovakia
1900 - 2016
199
0
CLChili
2010 - 2021
190
0
ARArgentina
1922 - 2015
80
0
PTPortugal
2014 - 2022
41
0
SKSlovakia
2011 - 2022
8
0
Popularity of the name Mark

Total births of Mark by country (last available year)

Births with the first name Mark
Country
Boys
Girls
USUnited State of America
2022
1,395
0
PLPoland
2022
522
0
MDMoldova
2022
411
0
DEGermany
2022
370
0
GBUnited Kingdom
2021
207
0
SISlovenia
2022
179
0
EEEstonia
2022
60
0
ITItaly
2021
56
0
NLNetherlands
2022
55
0
ONOntario
2019
52
0
IEIreland
2022
50
0
FRFrance
2022
49
0
ATAustria
2021
36
0
BEBelgium
2022
28
0
CHSwitzerland
2021
26
0
DKDenmark
2022
26
0
ABAlberta
2022
23
0
BCBritish Columbia
2022
19
0
NZNew Zealand
2022
12
0
NONorway
2022
11
0
SESweden
2022
11
0
CLChili
2021
9
0
CZCzechoslovakia
2016
7
0
QCQuebec
2022
6
0
ARArgentina
2015
1
0

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Personalities with the first name Mark

There are 1104 personalities with the first name Mark

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) src

United states of america
Writer Teacher Author Journalist Travel writer Aphorist Children's writer Opinion journalist Novelist Prosaist Humorist Autobiographer Science fiction writer

Mark Zuckerberg src

United states of america
Facebook Computer scientist Entrepreneur Instagram Chief executive officer Programmer Patron of the arts

Vin Diesel src

United states of america
Screenwriter Stunt performer Stage actor Voice actor Film director Film producer Film actor

Mark Wahlberg src

United states of america
Actor Singer Record producer Musician Rapper Film producer Model Television actor Film actor

Mark Rutte src

Kingdom of the netherlands
Teacher Politician Historian

Larry Sanger (Lawrence Mark Sanger) src

United states of america
Businessperson Computer scientist Philosopher Blogger

Mark Ruffalo (Mark Alan Ruffalo) src

United states of america
Screenwriter Writer Stage actor Film director Film producer Television actor Film actor

Mark Shuttleworth src

United kingdom South africa
Inventor Blogger Astronaut Businessperson Engineer Computer scientist Entrepreneur Software developer

Sean Bean (Shaun Mark Bean) src

United kingdom
Actor Stage actor Voice actor Television actor Film actor

Mark Rothko (Маркус Яковлевич Роткович) src

United states of america Russian empire
Painter University teacher Drawer


There are more than 10 personalities with the first name Mark
Full list of personalities with the first name Mark

Film Actors and Actresses with the first name Mark

There are 11235 actors and actresses with the first name Mark
Mark Doronin
Mark Vincent Page
Mark Mckenna Jr.
Mark Mcgonagle
Mark Freudian
Mark Avanu
Mark Flood
Mark White
Mark Indelicato
Mark Womack
Mark Rebane
Mark Hamilton
Mark Andrew Jones
Mark Filatov
Mark Rowley
Mark Hurtado
Mark Ritchie
Mark Jacobson
Mark Daugherty
Mark Poletti
Mark Fischbach
Mark Reinhart
Mark Rendall
Mark Nicole
Mark James Cuminale
Mark Burzenski
Mark Allen Jr.
Mark Luz
Mark Iverson
Mark Mayr

There are more than 30 actors and actresses with the first name Mark
The full list of actors and actresses with the first name Mark

Rankings of first name MARK by country

Country ranking (boys)
RankCountryYear
#3EE Estonia2022
#4SI Slovenia2022
#9MD Moldova2022
#58PL Poland2022
#123IE Ireland2022
#185DE Germany2022
#186AT Austria2021
#191DK Denmark2022
#193AB Alberta2022
#228BC British Columbia2022
#238CZ Czechoslovakia2016
#241GB United Kingdom2021
#243ON Ontario2019
#248US United State of America2022
#253IT Italy2021
#299NL Netherlands2022
#319NO Norway2022
#344CH Switzerland2021
#386NZ New Zealand2022
#403BE Belgium2022
#517CL Chili2021
#546SE Sweden2022
#637QC Quebec2022
#859FR France2022
#1262AR Argentina2015
Country ranking (girls)
RankCountryYear
No ranking of first name MARK (female) births over the last year available in each country
Other boys' names around Mark
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Other girls' names around Mark
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