Markes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: son of Mark, or a different form of Mark; also contracted form of German Markus

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɑɹkiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Markes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 723K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 94K
  • CZCzechia1 in 198K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

460 people, 2010

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

son of Mark, or a different form of Mark; also contracted form of German Markus

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Markes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Markes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4601 in 723K468Markes164
BR Brazil≈380 est.≈1 in 560K127——
IT Italy≈250 est.≈1 in 249K—Markes2
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 637K—Markes46
ES Spain571 in 877K57—6
CZ Czechia541 in 198K54——
NL Netherlands491 in 353K49Markes11
HR Croatia451 in 94K45——
JM Jamaica≈9 est.≈1 in 298K—Markes2

460 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Markes is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Márkes, Markeš

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland

    Languages: Czech, Polish

    Also written Markeš

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Márkes, Markés

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Markés, Markeš, Markēs

  • Croatian surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Spain, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Markeš, Marques, Маркеш, Marqués, Marquès

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Màŕķëś, Markeş

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Markes is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, 23 Belege; wohl abgeschwächt aus Markus, konkurriert aber mit Patronymen zu Kurzform Mark/Merk von Rufname Marcus.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, genitive singular of Mark

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, marquess

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Albert Ernest Markes, b. 1865Larry Markes, b. 1921Araminta Victoria Markes, b. 1987Ronny Markes, b. 1988Patrick Markes, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Markes,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Markes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—977#9,458
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000468#43,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010460#46,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020416#53,634
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—57#40,683
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—57#40,491
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—54#27,443
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—54#10,227
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200749#31,210
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Markes mean, and where does it come from?
son of Mark, or a different form of Mark; also contracted form of German Markus Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Markes?
A machine transcription gives /mɑɹkiz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Markes have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 460 people named Markes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled markes.
Where is Markes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Markes is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 94 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Markes?
In the United States, the national register counted 460 people named Markes in 2010, about 1 in 723 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Markes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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