Marek
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #17,636 · #2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,136since 1956
Marek over time
Rank among boys' names. Marek has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,604 | 50 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,476 | 55 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,480 | 54 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,060 | 73 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,225 | 63 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,113 | 66 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,150 | 66 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,617 | 101 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,725 | 90 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,539 | 108 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,491 | 111 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,485 | 109 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,326 | 129 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,588 | 99 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,484 | 109 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,219 | 145 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,266 | 139 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,334 | 129 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,229 | 143 |
| 2006 | — | #1,339 | 122 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,411 | 104 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,414 | 100 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,815 | 65 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,851 | 61 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,578 | 36 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,462 | 36 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,599 | 32 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,441 | 32 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,400 | 32 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,927 | 43 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,943 | 23 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,753 | 24 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,779 | 15 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,068 | 34 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,559 | 21 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,364 | 21 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,408 | 20 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,709 | 15 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,293 | 16 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,788 | 20 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
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| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Marek! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Marek is popular in 1956
No state had 5 or more boys named Marek in 1956, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Marek
- 128 spots since 2024 (#2,476 → #2,604)
- 491 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,604)
- 1,113 spots since 2015 (#1,491 → #2,604)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2010 at #1,219 (145 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,232 boys born in 2010 were named Marek (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.0% of all boys named Marek (1,067) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | #3,559 (1958) | #3,830 |
| 1960s | 86 | #1,788 (1968) | #2,729 |
| 1970s | 147 | #2,293 (1970) | #2,688 |
| 1980s | 219 | #2,068 (1989) | #2,475 |
| 1990s | 292 | #1,927 (1994) | #2,668 |
| 2000s | 948 | #1,229 (2007) | #1,635 |
| 2010s | 1,067 | #1,219 (2010) | #1,562 |
| 2020s | 361 | #2,060 (2022) | #2,326 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marek in 1956
Top boys' names in 1956
More about 1956
boys
2,115,302 boys got a published name in 1956; 1 in 423,060 of them was named Marek, which outranked 11.5% of the 4,455 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 513 names at #3,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.