Mark
Mark is ranked 246th among boys in 2024 (1,437 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1959–1964.
- Rank in 2024
- #246up 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,4370.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 196058,719 births
- Best rank
- #6first in 1959
- Since 1880
- 1,365,265people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,360,769 boys have been named Mark in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 58,719 births — 2.8% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 1,437 births in 2024, against 58,719 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 59 of them in the top 100 and 16 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,496 girls have also been given it, 0.33% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 928 | |
| 1890s | 953 | |
| 1900s | 971 | |
| 1910s | 4,134 | |
| 1920s | 6,495 | |
| 1930s | 7,444 | |
| 1940s | 50,731 | |
| 1950s | 382,585 | |
| 1960s | 441,381 | |
| 1970s | 194,288 | |
| 1980s | 129,460 | |
| 1990s | 75,815 | |
| 2000s | 37,256 | |
| 2010s | 21,105 | |
| 2020s | 7,223 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Mark was the 6th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Mark
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Dirkpeak 1954
- Greggpeak 1962
- Jefforypeak 1967
- Kerrypeak 1960
- Kurtpeak 1964
- Darrypeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.