Marcos
Fewer than 350 men in Poland carry it, and most people here will never meet one. The root is Latin: like Marcus, it means "belonging to Mars", the Roman god of war.
Marcos Pronunciation
Marcos is pronounced MAHR-tsos (/ˈmart͡sɔs/).
What Marcos means
Where Marcos comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marcos begins in Latin, the Spanish form of Marcus, a Roman name bound to Mars, the god of war. The short meaning stays close to that root: belonging to Mars. Roman soldiers carried Marcus across the empire, and Spanish speakers later smoothed the ending until Marcus became Marcos, the form now printed on identity cards from Madrid to Buenos Aires.
In Spanish the evangelist Mark is Marcos, and the second Gospel goes by the title Evangelio de Marcos. His emblem is a lion, which is why a winged lion guards the square in Venice that bears his name. So a name rooted in a war god came to sit beside a saint.
The military sense never fully left. In Poland the name stays foreign, a guest beside the native Marek, its cognate from the same Latin root. On a school register it would sit apart from the Mareks, still meaning belonging to Mars.
How many people are named Marcos
1 in 63342 men in Poland is named Marcos. 337 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1640 among male names.
Marcos's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Marcos as a middle name
Marcos is a first name for 337 men in Poland and a middle name for another 80, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 799th, between Luka (80) and Mitchell (80).
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#797 Hung80
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#798 Luka80
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#799 Marcos80
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#800 Mitchell80
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#801 Yehuda80