Origin and formation
Marcos comes from the Spanish personal name Marcos, continuing Latin Marcus. A personal name thus became the basis of the surname, which was borrowed into Tagalog. The same written form can be used as either a given name or a family surname. In the Philippine presidential family, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos inherited Marcos from his father Mariano Marcos, while Edralin came from his mother Josefa. His son Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. likewise inherited the surname, with Romualdez coming from his mother Imelda’s family name.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /ˈmaɾkos/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /ˈmaɾkos/ · Wiktionary ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Marcos has 4 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts
Related given-name entries
The given-name catalogue has separate entries with the same spelling. Each page explains its own given-name use and sources.