Marquetta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marquetta has been given to 2,130 babies in the U.S. since 1929. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 91 recorded.
Babies named Marquetta, 2015
1 in 617,000
Marquetta over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marquetta?
Marquetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marquetta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marquetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marquettas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marquetta was born before 1980 — so the typical Marquetta is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 32.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,961
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (688).
Is Marquetta 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (91)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.0% average annual change
Spellings of Marquetta
Marquetta is not the most common spelling — Marietta is, with 40.4% against Marquetta's 5.7%.
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 Marquetta is used
Across 1910–2025, Marquetta was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 227,136 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 50,000
- 2Ohio1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Illinois1 in 100,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 6Michigan1 in 100,000
- 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 8California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Marquetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marquetta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marquetta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Marquetta
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marquetta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Marquetta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.