Marc

Marc is Mark with the final k filed down to a softer stop—a small orthographic gesture that carries continental weather. The Welsh adopted it early, and the name also anchors itself in French and Catalan, where it sits with a little more sophistication than its English cousin. The root is Roman Mars, the war god, though centuries of usage have rubbed the martial edge off entirely. Marc Chagall floated it through twentieth-century art; Marc Bolan made it glam. One syllable, steady, adult. It's the kind of name that wears a dark coat well and doesn't need to introduce itself twice.