The MARKUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,572	8497	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	243	16715	0	5
Change since 1880	+3329	+8218	+N/A	+8
Other Countries
Australia	140	10492	0.001	9
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MARKUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	394	6897	0.001	12
Illinois	394	3222	0.003	32
New York	245	7772	0.001	13
Michigan	237	5042	0.002	24
Florida	230	8161	0.001	14
Top States for MARKUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	26	5064	0.003	34
Illinois	394	3222	0.003	32
Wyoming	14	5141	0.003	28
Colorado	118	4598	0.003	27
Nebraska	46	5770	0.003	27

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MARKUS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MARKUS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MARKUS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MARKUS by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MARKUS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MARKUS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MARKUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	87	2.44
Mixed Race	52	1.46
Black/African American	32	0.9
Asian/Pacific	26	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.28
White (Caucasian)	3,365	94.2

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MARKUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MARKUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARKUS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.