Marcus
209
Babies in 2024
-20%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 674
+2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Marcus
Marcus peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (674 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 209 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Marcus reached its peak in 1996, when 674 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #85 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 209 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 11,257 boys have been officially registered with the name Marcus in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,484 boys were registered with the name, starting from 263 in 2014 and ending at 209 in 2024.