# Marek (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marek/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,141 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,136 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 487, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | 19,443 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 109 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 99 | 1,593 |
| 2013 | 129 | 1,335 |
| 2014 | 109 | 1,490 |
| 2015 | 111 | 1,500 |
| 2016 | 108 | 1,545 |
| 2017 | 90 | 1,731 |
| 2018 | 101 | 1,620 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,162 |
| 2020 | 66 | 2,128 |
| 2021 | 63 | 2,248 |
| 2022 | 73 | 2,073 |
| 2023 | 54 | 2,500 |
| 2024 | 55 | 2,493 |
| 2025 | 50 | 2,629 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,251 |
| 2012 | 33 | 901 |
| 2013 | 31 | 931 |
| 2014 | 36 | 837 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 24 | 1,157 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,329 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## People named Marek

- Marek Jankulovski, Czech association football player
- Marek Edelman, (1919–2009) Jewish resistance member
- Marek Suchý, Czech soccer player and soccer representant
- Marek Heinz, Czech footballer
- Marek Matějovský, Czech footballer
- Marek Janowski, German conductor
- Marek Malík, Czech ice hockey player
- Marek Zidlicky, Czech ice hockey player
- Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer (born 1972)
- Marek Štěch, Czech association football player
- Marek Čech, Czech association football player
- Marek Švec, Czech Olympian, coach and wrestler

## 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.