Markus (first name)

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Markus or Marcus is a male given name .

Origin and meaning of the name

Markus is derived from the common Latin first name Marcus (from * mart-kos , " consecrated to the Roman god of war Mars "). Originally it probably mostly referred to people who were born in March ; this month takes its name from the god of war Mars, and the Roman calendar originally began with March as the first month.

Since early Christianity, however, the reference of this name to the evangelist of the same name has been in the foreground.

distribution

In the first half of the 20th century, the name Markus was rarely used as a boy's first name in Germany. At the end of the 1950s, its popularity rose sharply. From the mid-sixties to the end of the seventies, the name was mostly among the ten most common of the respective year. At the beginning of the nineties, its popularity declined significantly.

name day

Variants and derived names

Male

Female

Further

Like Markus , the first names Martin and Martial as well as the French name Celine refer to the god of war Mars.

Well-known namesake

Antiquity

middle Ages

Further

Pseudonyms / artist names

  • Markus (* 1959), artist name of the German pop singer Markus Mörl, since 2006 also Markus M.
  • Markus, pseudonym of the comic book author Danny de Laet
  • Markus , pseudonym of the cartoonist Jörg Mark-Ingraban von Morgen
  • Alexander Marcus , actually Felix Rennefeld (* 1972), German pop singer
  • Jürgen Marcus , actually Jürgen Beumer (1948–2018), German pop singer

Further

places

Others

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Markus  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark. In: Popular-vornamen.de. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ z. B. Markusine Guthjahr: Markusine Guthjahr. In: guthjahr.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .