# Marc (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marc/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 141,137 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 140,604 / 533 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,216, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Marc, from Latin Marcus.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 12 | 5,769 |
| 1982 | 10 | 6,662 |
| 1983 | 16 | 4,597 |
| 1984 | 22 | 3,675 |
| 1985 | 21 | 3,933 |
| 1986 | 19 | 4,287 |
| 1987 | 13 | 5,802 |
| 1988 | 11 | 6,934 |
| 1989 | 9 | 8,473 |
| 1990 | 7 | 10,919 |
| 1992 | 7 | 11,219 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,306 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,841 |
| 1997 | 6 | 13,105 |
| 2000 | 10 | 9,621 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 438 | 572 |
| 2012 | 419 | 604 |
| 2013 | 376 | 651 |
| 2014 | 411 | 642 |
| 2015 | 377 | 674 |
| 2016 | 356 | 694 |
| 2017 | 298 | 787 |
| 2018 | 269 | 831 |
| 2019 | 222 | 964 |
| 2020 | 182 | 1,092 |
| 2021 | 217 | 1,014 |
| 2022 | 195 | 1,100 |
| 2023 | 194 | 1,100 |
| 2024 | 172 | 1,194 |
| 2025 | 162 | 1,237 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 57 | 602 |
| 2012 | 58 | 606 |
| 2013 | 39 | 788 |
| 2014 | 35 | 854 |
| 2015 | 32 | 927 |
| 2016 | 43 | 765 |
| 2017 | 34 | 906 |
| 2018 | 38 | 821 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,192 |
| 2021 | 28 | 1,023 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,011 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 29 | 1,025 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Marc

- Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
- Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, former President of Burkina Faso ousted in a coup d'état on 23 Jan 2022
- Marc Overmars, Dutch association football player (born 1973)
- Marc Albrighton, English association football player
- Marc Janko, Austrian association football player
- Marc Wilmots, Belgian football manager
- Marc Levy, French writer (born 1961)
- Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian and French footballer
- Marc Ouellet, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal
- Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer (born 1963)
- Marc Andreessen, American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
- Marc Webb, American music video and film director

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.