Marcus or Daniel for our baby: which do you prefer?

[ForDearJadeCat]

Hi everyone, my husband and I can't decide on a name for our baby. We're choosing between Marcus (Mark) and Daniel. Which name do you think is better?

Daniel - just . They are both great choices!

Oh I had these as my last two choices, had a girls so never had to decide. I think I prefer Marcus but it's a very close call.

Daniel ❤️

Daniel

Daniel

Marcus (not Mark)
Or Duncan

Daniel - but that's because it was my grandfather's name and he was apparently a very nice man.

I love the name Daniel x

Marcus! 💯

Daniel is a handsome classic still well in use today, but not overly popular anymore.

Marcus/Mark feels more dated to me. It's ok, but I prefer Daniel.

Both nice names. I prefer Daniel.

I like them both. Daniel is massively common in the 30-50 age group, but I’d wager there aren’t many babies named Daniel.

Well, don’t think about Marcus and Daniel think about Mark and Dan… I prefer Dan so Daniel it is for me. ( regardless of what you call the baby that’s realistically what they will be through life )

I voted Daniel but they are both perfectly fine names and you please ignore the choices of us randoms
on the internet. Who cares whether I prefer Daniel? It’s your choice.

Love them both!

Either they are brilliant names. I nameds my DS's them 😁

Both names are fine. Depends on whether you like Dan/Danny or not, and if the names go with the surname.
There were 10,336 Daniels registered in England & Wales in 1996, when it was the 2nd most popular name, so there will be a lot of them in their late 20s and 30s.
There are a lot of Marks in their 50s and 60s.

I would go for Marcus, but not shorten it to mark as I think both that and Daniel sound more dated for a baby IMO

Daniel as it’s less common (I’ve never taught one) and the the kids call Marcus that I’ve taught/known as friends of my own children have been rather snobby or mean children so it’s tainted the name for me.

I'd put them in the order:
Mark
Daniel
Marcus

I've just remembered the name of some neighbours' children when I was a kid. I could remember DC1 and DC3's names but not their DC2. It was Mark!

Daniel

Mark and Marcus are two separate names. If you want to shorten Marcus to Mark straight away, then name him Mark.

My Marcus has never been shortened, Daniel is known as Danny.

I grew up in the 80’s/90’s and knew so many Daniel’s and Mark’s so they seem unsuitable for a baby to me, but I know that’s just my age circumstances. We had three Daniel’s in our small class of 16 kids!

I think I prefer Daniel overall. It’ll likely get shortened to Dan/Danny though.

Both lovely and I would struggle to choose too. Marcus might edge it for me as it feels more distinctive. But only if we are talking about Marcus, not Mark which, as already noted, is a different name.