Marko

From Mark +‎ -o.

Marko (plural Markos)

1. Nickname for Mark.

Marko (plural Markos)

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Mark.
   • 2025 February 7, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, “‘Second American Revolution’: The team behind DOGE’s government overhaul”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     At the heart of much of the controversy surrounding DOGE’s review and access to much of the federal government’s financial payment data was the unique pairing of Tom Krause, a long-time software CEO, and Marko Elez, a 25-year-old recent employee at Musk’s company SpaceX.

• Komar, O mark, korma, omkar

Marko m

1. a male given name

Marko

1. a male given name, variant of Markus (“Mark”)

20th century variant of Markku and Markus, borrowed from Slavic Marko and Italian Marco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrko/, [ˈmɑ̝rko̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑrko
• Syllabification^(key): Mar‧ko
• Hyphenation^(key): Mar‧ko

Marko

1. a male given name
   • 1990, Harri Tapper, Näin syntyvät revontulet, Gummerus, published 2003, →ISBN, page 109:

     —Markohan oli prinssi.
     Äiti rupesi selostamaan meille niin, että Vihtori oli kerran lukenut ääneen kirjaa. Se kertoi kaukaisesta maasta, Italiasta. Italiassa asui kuningas ja hänellä oli Marko-niminen poika. Kuninkaan poikaa kutsutaan prinssiksi. Koska prinssi oli oikeudenmukainen ja suora mies, niin me päätimme, että kastetaan oma poika Markoksi. Miksi ei kastettaisi?
     —Markko, se muuten on.
     —Marko.
     —Perkele, kun minä en saa lapsilleni niitä nimiä, mitä tarkoitan. Rovasti tunsi nimen Markku, mikä on samaa juurta kuin evankelista Markus ja kaikkialla maailmassa hyvin tunnettu ja sen tähden rovasti kirjoitti kirjaan että Markko, kun onhan niin, että ruotsikielessä oo lausutaan uuksi, ja sillä tavoin rovasti sai tahtonsa läpitse. Eikö ollutkin itsepintainen rovasti. Mitä arvelette?

     —Marko was a prince after all.
     Mother started explaining to us that Vihtori had once read a book out loud. It was about the distant land of Italy, in which there lived a king with a son named Marko. The son of a king is called a prince. The prince was a just and honest man, so we decided to christen our own son Marko. Why wouldn't we?
     —He's Markko, by the way.
     —Marko.
     —God damn, I just can't get the names for my children that I'm trying to. The provost knew the name Markku, of the same origin as the Mark who wrote the gospel, and well known around the world, and so the provost wrote Markko in the book, since in Swedish o's are pronounced as u's, and so the provost got what he wanted. What a stubborn provost, don't you think?

   • 2002, Eeva Ahtisaari, Juuret ja siivet, WSOY, →ISBN, page 68:

     Maatessani vuoteessa keskityin miettimään vauvalle nimeä. Tein sen hyvin huolellisesti. Minua miellytti suomalainen Markku, mutta ystävämme Juha Sipilä oli heittänyt ohimennen Martille, että entäs Marko. "Sehän sopisi sinunlaisesi maailmanmatkaajan pojalle, viittaisi sopivasti Marco Poloon."
     Niin me päädyimme Markoon.

     As I lay in bed, I pondered a name for the baby. I did so very meticulously. The FInnihs name Markku pleased me, but our friend Juha Sipilä had quipped Martti that we should name him Marko. "That'd suit the son of a globetrotter like you, a nice reference to Marco Polo after all."
     So we ended up naming him Marko.

• Popular in Finland in the 1960s and the 1970s.

• Marko is the 19^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 24,987 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,418 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• makro, makro-

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Marko

1. a male given name, variant of Marco

Márko

1. genitive singular of Márkas (“Mark”)

• IPA^(key): /mâːrko/

Mȃrko m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ма̑рко)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Mark

Marko m pers

1. a male given name
2. a male surname

• “Marko”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /màːrkɔ/

Márko m anim

1. a male given name

Borrowed from English Mark.

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Marko

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Mark
2. (biblical) Mark (book of the New Testament)