Markus Forename
1,590th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 619,554 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Liechtenstein
Markus Forename User-submission:
This name means 'one belonging to Mars, the god of war'.
Markus Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 331,736 | 1:291 | 79 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 65,442 | 1:126 | 9 |
| Indonesia | 99% | 62,964 | 1:4,097 | 472 |
| Austria | 100% | 49,975 | 1:170 | 36 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 34,123 | 1:5,204 | 843 |
| Finland | 100% | 15,211 | 1:360 | 102 |
| Sweden | 100% | 9,034 | 1:1,091 | 189 |
| United States | 100% | 8,849 | 1:40,969 | 2,471 |
| India | 100% | 3,674 | 1:330,669 | 29,912 |
| Papua New Guinea | 97% | 3,477 | 1:2,345 | 271 |
| South Africa | 99% | 2,933 | 1:18,593 | 2,647 |
| Namibia | - | 2,611 | 1:921 | 189 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2,542 | 1:27,563 | 3,515 |
| Italy | 100% | 2,130 | 1:28,668 | 1,026 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,976 | 1:108,419 | 5,862 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,602 | 1:23,737 | 801 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,588 | 1:20,865 | 1,865 |
| Russia | 98% | 1,457 | 1:98,994 | 1,888 |
| England | 100% | 1,373 | 1:40,497 | 2,056 |
| Norway | 100% | 1,277 | 1:4,019 | 541 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 1,208 | 1:17,889 | 1,687 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,179 | 1:14,336 | 1,541 |
| Australia | - | 924 | 1:14,781 | 1,171 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 894 | 1:59,047 | 4,069 |
| Israel | 100% | 880 | 1:9,549 | 1,239 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 758 | 1:40,650 | 4,986 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 752 | 1:40,492 | 3,497 |
| Denmark | - | 745 | 1:7,583 | 724 |
| Estonia | 100% | 702 | 1:1,874 | 417 |
| France | 100% | 585 | 1:113,625 | 2,379 |
| Spain | 100% | 549 | 1:84,754 | 2,657 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 513 | 1:20,334 | 1,895 |
| Ghana | - | 506 | 1:53,332 | 2,793 |
| Belgium | 100% | 428 | 1:26,846 | 1,791 |
| Egypt | 100% | 390 | 1:235,643 | 8,182 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 348 | 1:109 | 13 |
| Romania | 100% | 288 | 1:69,625 | 3,470 |
| Portugal | - | 286 | 1:36,402 | 1,414 |
| New Zealand | - | 232 | 1:19,552 | 1,554 |
| Ireland | 100% | 200 | 1:23,218 | 1,069 |
| Czechia | 98% | 189 | 1:56,382 | 879 |
| Japan | - | 171 | 1:748,456 | 13,297 |
| China | - | 165 | 1:8,279,126 | 59,487 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 157 | 1:470,240 | 16,785 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 126 | 1:42,143 | 707 |
| Singapore | 100% | 104 | 1:60,452 | 6,836 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 102 | 1:5,530 | 573 |
| Philippines | 99% | 102 | 1:1,039,309 | 28,013 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 97 | 1:317,386 | 6,177 |
| Greece | 100% | 95 | 1:115,101 | 2,946 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 83 | 1:592 | 126 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 81 | 1:88,296 | 7,308 |
| Guatemala | - | 80 | 1:201,355 | 3,056 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 79 | 1:224,644 | 4,755 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 77 | 1:590,908 | 2,415 |
| Belarus | 100% | 68 | 1:139,447 | 1,340 |
| Mexico | 100% | 66 | 1:1,880,976 | 11,473 |
| Scotland | 100% | 64 | 1:83,599 | 2,115 |
| Chile | 94% | 63 | 1:279,479 | 4,392 |
| Malta | - | 62 | 1:6,925 | 809 |
| Ecuador | - | 57 | 1:310,999 | 4,245 |
| Hong Kong | - | 54 | 1:143,569 | 3,037 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 50 | 1:49,175 | 2,044 |
| Hungary | 100% | 46 | 1:212,865 | 1,101 |
| Haiti | - | 44 | 1:243,794 | 10,351 |
| Greenland | - | 38 | 1:1,483 | 298 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Jamaica | - | 36 | 1:80,090 | 3,752 |
| Croatia | 100% | 35 | 1:120,488 | 2,705 |
| Turkey | 100% | 30 | 1:2,593,390 | 16,208 |
| Latvia | 100% | 29 | 1:69,505 | 1,615 |
| Nepal | 89% | 27 | 1:1,055,087 | 22,243 |
| Iceland | - | 26 | 1:14,078 | 1,129 |
| Wales | 100% | 26 | 1:119,012 | 2,694 |
| Angola | - | 25 | 1:1,078,664 | 2,481 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 25 | 1:289,472 | 3,856 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 24 | 1:1,258,412 | 25,329 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 22 | 1:61,883 | 5,136 |
| Moldova | - | 20 | 1:178,057 | 1,710 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Lithuania | - | 19 | 1:155,362 | 1,773 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 17 | 1:5,448,418 | 3,651 |
| Botswana | - | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Guernsey | - | 16 | 1:3,958 | 490 |
| Sudan | 100% | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Albania | 100% | 15 | 1:203,105 | 10,584 |
| Kenya | - | 15 | 1:3,087,141 | 21,962 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 15 | 1:1,584,645 | 46,832 |
| Gibraltar | - | 14 | 1:2,438 | 470 |
| Monaco | 100% | 14 | 1:2,748 | 527 |
| Peru | 100% | 14 | 1:2,270,818 | 22,263 |
| Colombia | 100% | 13 | 1:3,675,302 | 23,534 |
| South Korea | - | 12 | 1:462,035 | 12,149 |
| Argentina | 50% | 11 | 1:3,888,477 | 10,916 |
| Congo | 100% | 11 | 1:455,382 | 8,101 |
| Pakistan | 82% | 11 | 1:17,668,880 | 95,124 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 9 | 1:204,794 | 1,831 |
| Bahrain | - | 9 | 1:149,853 | 3,890 |
| Ethiopia | - | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Gabon | - | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 9 | 1:625,286 | 7,004 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Togo | - | 9 | 1:804,360 | 4,738 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 8 | 1:595,994 | 8,229 |
| Jersey | - | 7 | 1:14,283 | 1,073 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 6 | 1:591,717 | 4,217 |
| Benin | 100% | 5 | 1:2,115,169 | 40,564 |
| Bolivia | - | 5 | 1:2,120,281 | 4,345 |
| Bulgaria | - | 5 | 1:1,398,078 | 12,856 |
| Senegal | 100% | 5 | 1:2,916,271 | 15,947 |
| Uganda | 100% | 5 | 1:8,191,384 | 58,906 |
| Afghanistan | - | 4 | 1:8,155,879 | 35,337 |
| Armenia | 100% | 4 | 1:729,688 | 7,125 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 4 | 1:2,410,736 | 23,569 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 4 | 1:881,114 | 5,655 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Panama | - | 4 | 1:976,639 | 21,104 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Tajikistan | - | 4 | 1:2,093,730 | 5,016 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Barbados | - | 3 | 1:96,596 | 2,324 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 3 | 1:1,991,092 | 30,660 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Serbia | 100% | 3 | 1:2,381,907 | 7,319 |
| Uruguay | - | 3 | 1:1,142,546 | 10,015 |
| Zambia | - | 3 | 1:5,284,931 | 37,895 |
| Belize | - | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Georgia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Jordan | - | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 2 | 1:7,711,908 | 84,647 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | 100% | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burkina Faso | - | 1 | 1:18,379,469 | 100,219 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Liberia | - | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Nicaragua | - | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
The alternate forms: Markús (104), Márkus (63), Markuš (12) & Markùs (1) are calculated separately.
Markus (83,695) may also be a surname.
Markus Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
This name means 'one belonging to Mars, the god of war'.
- b.markoMarkus is a male name, derived from the Roman god Mars.
- deleted-173293Markus Forename Popularity
Markus Demographics
Markus Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 1,125 (2014)
United States
Average
Phonetically Similar Names
Markus Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Markus in the Russian language | ||
| Маркус | markus | - |
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