MarkU
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
MarkU is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 82as Marko(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 84as Marko
- ITItaly≈1 in 114as Marco
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than MarkU itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #34 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 708 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82 (inferred from the name graph)
1,135,541 named Mark, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est., as Marko
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mark in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 1 more, Marko in HR Croatia, FI Finland, RS Serbia and Marcos in BR Brazil.
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(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
MarkU 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #16 | 1,135,541as Mark | 1 in 293 | 1.1M | Mark | 708 |
| BR Brazil | #13 | 1,082,739as Marcos | 1 in 196 | 1.1M | Marcos | 282 |
| PH Philippines | #5 | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | — | Mark | 247 |
| IT Italy | #57 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 114 | 1.3K | Mark | 201 |
| GB United Kingdom | #11 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 125 | 34 | Mark | 476 |
| RS Serbia | #8 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 82 | listed | Marko | 128 |
| HR Croatia | #6 | 50,393as Marko | 1 in 84 | 50K | Marko | 185 |
| FI Finland | #74 | 43,211as Markus | 1 in 129 | 49K | Marko | 80 |
1,135,541 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
MarkU is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, instrumental singular of Márkas (“Mark”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, locative/vocative singular of marek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, accusative singular of marka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, imperative of marki
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, boundary, border
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)
- Antonio Markub. 1992ALAlbanian association football player
- Florian Markub. 1992ALAlbanian boxer
- Kristi Markub. 1995ALAlbanian footballer
- Malvina MarkuFRresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 852 | #29,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 587 | #37,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 330 | #57,705 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 152 | #9,245 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 72 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 66 | #10,939 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 59 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 MarkU mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce MarkU?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹku/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does MarkU have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Mark, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name MarkU?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,135,541 people named Mark in 2020, about 1 in 293 residents.
- How common is MarkU compared with other names?
- In the United States, MarkU is the 16th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about MarkU?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/markuThe 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, “MarkU” — the 16th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.