Markou
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Markou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Cyprus it is the 100th most common surname.
- GRGreece≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.9K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Μαρκου in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Markou 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Markou | 1 |
| GR Greece | #398 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 36 | Μαρκου | 90 |
| US United States | — | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 292 | Markou | 131 |
| CY Cyprus | #100 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Markou | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Markou | 65 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Markou | 5 |
| BS Bahamas | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Markou | 1 |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georgios Markoub. 1690GRGreek painter
- Anastasios Markoub. 1945DEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0812-6818
- Markos Markoub. 1949CYCypriot association football player
- Athina Markoub. 1961USGreek American psychopharmacologist (1961–2016)
- Manu Markoub. 1972FRFrench singer
- Eleni Markoub. 1995GRGreek footballer
- Christos Markouresearcher in particle physics
- Marcus MarkouBritish playwright
- Giorgos MarkouGRresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 292 | #71,896 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Markou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Markou in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled markou.
- How common is the name Markou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 262 people named Markou in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Markou compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Markou is the 100th most common surname of 24,832 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/markouThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Markou” — the 100th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.