Name Mark

There are multiple origins and translations for the hugely popular name Mark:

1. Old English name, comes from the Old English word marc - "golden or silver unit of money or weight (about eight ounces)" or derived from the word mearc - "boundary, sign, limit, mark".

2. Derived from the Latin word (Marculus) - "small hammer", or of Marco - "faint; to be weak/idle/apathetic".

3. Diminutive form of the name Marquis and interpretation is - "ruler (of border territories)".

4. Germanic name, and translates as - "marrow, pith, medulla".

The name of several early Saints

Mark the Evangelist - is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Apostles of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity. One of the Evangelists (as well as Matthew, Luke and John).

The name from the list of seventy disciples of Christ in the Eastern Christian tradition. Except the twelve apostles [Andrew brother of the Apostle Peter (the fisherman from Bethsaida, a disciple of John the Baptist), Peter (he is Simon son of John, also called Cephas), John the Evangelist, James son of Zebedee, Philip of Bethsaida, Bartholomew aka Nathaniel, Matthew the tax collector (also Levi Alpheus), Thomas, James the son, Thaddeus son of Alpheus (also known as Jacob or Judah Levi), Simon the Zealot (also Simon the Zealot) and Judas Iscariot (who betrayed Jesus)] Jesus Christ also chosen seventy others: Agabus, Aquila, Amplus, Ananias, Andronicus, Apelles, Apollos, Aristarchus, Aristobulus, Artemas, Archippus, Asyncritus, Achaicus, Barnabas, Gaius, Euodias, Epaphras, Epaphroditus, Epenetus, Erastus, Hermas, Hermes, Zenas, James, Jason, Justus, Herodion, Carpus, Cleopas, Clement, Quadratus, Crescens, Crispus, Quartus, Linus, Lucius, Luke, John, Narcissus, Nicanor, Olympas, Onesimus, Onesiphorus, Parmenas, Patrobus, Prochorus, Pudens, Rufus, Silas, Silvan, Simeon, Sosipater, Sosthenes, Stachys, Stephen, Tertius, Timon, Timothy, Titus, Tychicus, Trophimus, Urban, Thaddeus, Philemon, Philip, Philologus, Fortunatus, Dionysus, Phlegon, Simeon Niger.