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Marques

#4,486 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Marquis

Marques has been given to 8,093 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #4,486 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 350 recorded.

Babies named Marques, 2025

1 in 144,000

Marques over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marques: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marquis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marques means

Marques is a variant of Marquis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marques → Marquis. The family’s meaning is “march, borderland”, recorded in the naming reference for Marquis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marquis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,070 boys were recorded with the name Marques between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 350 in 1984; its best national rank was #448 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,541 in 2020 to #4,486 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,180 in 2015 to #4,486 in 2025.

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Marques between 1982 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1983; its best national rank was #8,621 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Marques?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,486
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marques sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marques. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marquess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marques was born before 1994 — so the typical Marques is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,070
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (2,416).

Is Marques rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−914
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−945
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,306
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.6%
Peak was 1984 (350)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#448
1984

Spellings of Marques

Marques is not the most common spelling — Marcus is, with 73.8% against Marques's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marques is used

Across 1910–2025, Marques was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 28,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 12,500
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 20,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 20,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marques has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marques around the world

Where Marques ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2003–2014
    #1,683
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2006–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marques

People whose public names include Marques, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marques in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marques. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marque

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marques by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,486
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 945
Best rank ever
#448
1984
Peak year
1984
350 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,070
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,621
1983
Peak year
1983
7 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marques

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MarianoMarquezMarshalMarceloMarcellMarkellMarcelloMarquiseMarquelMarquisMartellMarleyMarkelMarkusMarcialMartezJacquesMarquanMarcelinoMarloweMarcelMarcellusMarlinMarshawn

Names with a curve like Marques

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marques, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AntwonDemarioJovanSheaJamelJamarDejuanJoshuahJamilAntwanKaseyRigoberto

Sibling names for Marques

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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