Marc
Meaning
dedicated to Mars, warlike
Famously borne by Marc Chagall, whose floating lovers mixed Russian-Jewish folklore with modernist color. Famously borne by Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.
Marc around the world
One shared root links 19 names across 8 languages.
Shared root: from Latin Marcus, a Roman praenomen traditionally derived from Mars, the war god; Marcellus is its diminutive
The constellation
12 more branches of this family
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Marc peaked in the 1960s and the 2000s in nearly equal measure.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
673 people · the #10,883 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 333,333 · median age 37
Among people named Marc living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 38 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Marc
Most people given the name Marc in the United States were born between 1960 and 1999. The Marc you meet today is most often in his 40s or 50s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Marc deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Marc truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Marc fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Marc travels
Catalan · dedicated to Mars (Catalan form of Mark); held the #1 spot in Catalonia from 1997 to 2021, twenty-five years, before slipping in 2022, and third again in 2024
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