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Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you, and Marcus sisters sonne to Barnabas, (touching whome yee receiued commandements; if he come vnto you, receiue him:) […]
Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 5644 males with the given name Marcus (compared to 2889 named Markus) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
1811, Johann Ludwig Himly, De Jesu in Coelum Ascensu, chapter 1, section 2, page 11:
Narrant enim Marcus et Lucas, sicut et alii apostoli omnia, quae de Jesu referunt memorabilia, eo modo quo probi honestique viri, omnisque fraudis expertes solent; id quod tibi manifestissime in oculos incurret scripta eorum aliqua cum auimi attentione perlegenti.
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3280 males with the given name Marcus (compared to 6268 named Markus) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
Marcus / Markus was the most common given name of boys born in Sweden in the 1990s.
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 36 338 males with the given name Marcus (compared to 18 057 named Markus) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.