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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Warlike; hammer; defender

First name variations: Marek, Marc, Marcus, Markus, Marcel, Marceau, Marque, Marco, Marek, Marko, Marus, Marks, Marx, March, Marius, Marquette, Marquis, Marky, Markie, Marilo, Márk, Markó, Márkus, Markis, Mark

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Greek: from the personal name Markos (see Mark) or a shortened form of patronymic derivatives of this, for example Markopoulos, Markakis, or composite names such as Markantonakis ‘son of Mark Anthony’.
  2. Hungarian: variant of Márkus, a Latinized Hungarian form of Mark.
  3. Hungarian: possibly a nickname from markos ‘strong’ (from marok ‘palm of the hand’, markol ‘to grip’).
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