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How popular is the name Mark?

Births per year, rank history and how many Marks are alive today.

Mark (male), once a common boys' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 294th in 2025 with 156 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1964, when around 19,400 babies were given the name, the 4th most popular that year. Mark fell out of the published rankings after 1904 and returned in 1954, a classic revival pattern. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 530,000 babies have been named Mark in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Mark is one spelling of a name also recorded as Marc; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Mark you are most likely to meet is around 61 years old. Half of all Marks born in England and Wales are between 47 and 63, and there are at least 450,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 78% chance that at least one of them will be called Mark.

How many babies are named Mark each year?

Includes all spellings: Mark, Marc. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Mark spelling rank?

Where does the Marc spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.