Listen to the German pronunciation of Marcus. The speaker is a native speaker of Standard German from Schleswig-Holstein / Northern Germany:
Typically born between 1960 and 1990
1) Roman praenomen, Latin mart-kos = 'dedicated to the god Mars' (see Marius)
2) Latinised version of Old German names containing the name element mark = 'border', 'borderland'
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