Mark (name)

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Mark is a given name and surname and another form of Marc . In terms of meaning and origin, the names are identical. Mark means something like "the warrior".

Origin and meaning

The first name Mark is a young short form or the English variant of the name Markus .

The surname Mark is polygenetic:

  • It is a short form of nicknames, which are formed with the word marka, old high German for "border, borderland, total property of a municipality" (for example Markward / t, Markhard / t );
  • it is a dwelling name in Old High German and Old Low German marka "border, border region, total property of a community";
  • it is an origin name for the common place name Mark (Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia, Bavaria, East Prussia).

distribution

The name Mark (Marc) quickly became popular in the late 1950s. He was once among the ten most popular boy names of the year in the mid-1970s. Then its popularity declined somewhat and remained at a constant mid-level among the fifty most popular first names in the eighties and nineties. In the new millennium, its popularity declined again a little.

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  1. ↑ https://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/5034-mark.htm
  2. ↑ Duden. Surnames. Origin and meaning, edited by Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2005, p. 446.
  3. ↑ Statistics "Popular first names"