Marc
From Latin, the name points back to Mars, the Roman war god. It stays rare in Poland: a French spelling given only to boys, worn today by around 600 men and said MAHRTS.
Marc Pronunciation
Marc is pronounced MAHRTS (/mart͡s/).
What Marc means
Where Marc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marc traces back to the Latin Marcus, one of the oldest Roman first names. Marcus grew from Mars, the god of war, which gives the name its sense of "dedicated to Mars." A Roman who bore it stood under the sign of a god who ruled both the fields and the battlefield.
The name moved west and settled in France, where Marc became the standard French form. French speakers kept the ending short and the sound hard. Marc Chagall, the painter, signed his canvases with exactly this spelling.
In Poland the French form turns up on official documents and in a school class register, where a boy might hear it read out from the list. Its name-day falls on the 25th of April, the feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist.
The meaning has never softened. Należący do Marsa, belonging to Mars, still sits beneath the modern spelling.
How many people are named Marc
1 in 33937 men in Poland is named Marc. 629 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1192 among male names.
Marc's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Marc as a middle name
Marc is a first name for 629 men in Poland and a middle name for another 253, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 444th, between Diego (254) and Ksawier (252).
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#442 Hans255
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#443 Diego254
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#444 Marc253
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#445 Ksawier252
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#446 Alfonso251