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Marquez

#2,964 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marquez has been given to 5,641 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,964 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Marquez, 2025

1 in 78,900

Marquez over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marquez: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marquez means

Marquez is a given name.

The naming story behind Marquez

Wikidata records Marquez as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121422494, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,636 boys were recorded with the name Marquez between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 258 in 1998; its best national rank was #664 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,107 in 2020 to #2,964 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,031 in 2015 to #2,964 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Marquez between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1990; its best national rank was #14,367 in 1990.

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 Marquez?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,964
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marquez 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marquez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marquezs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marquez was born before 2000 — so the typical Marquez is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,636
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (1,920).

Is Marquez 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
+350
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−857
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−933
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.3%
Peak was 1998 (258)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#664
1998

Spellings of Marquez

Marquez is not the most common spelling — Marquis is, with 44.0% against Marquez's 10.1%.

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 Marquez is used

Across 2016–2025, Marquez was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 33,099 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 6,250
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 7,143
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 14,286
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Marquez around the world

Where Marquez 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
    2007–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2000–2012
    #2,182
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Marquez

People whose public names include Marquez, 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.

Marquez by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,964
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 857
Best rank ever
#664
1998
Peak year
1998
258 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,636
Count in 2025
42

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,367
1990
Peak year
1990
5 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marquez

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

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Names with a curve like Marquez

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

DallinZakaryTravonDeshaunDarrionMaximillianJustynDarionDandreDeontaeBrennonDeondre

Sibling names for Marquez

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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