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Marc

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Marc is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 172 births. Its best rank was 60th, in 1970.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1720.01% of boys
Peak year
19705,011 births
Best rank
#60in 1970
Since 1901
140,440people given the name
Babies named Marc, by year of birthboys
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

140,440 boys have been named Marc in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 5,011 births — 0.27% of all boys recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 172 births in 2024, against 5,011 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1970s alone account for 23%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Marc
1900s19
1910s105
1920s270
1930s489
1940s6,180
1950s21,947
1960s31,374
1970s31,838
1980s20,522
1990s14,315
2000s8,818
2010s3,603
2020s960

In 1970, its biggest year

Marc was the 60th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.

Names that rose and fell with Marc

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.