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Marquise

#2,324 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Marquis

Marquise has been given to 10,995 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,324 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 644 recorded.

Babies named Marquise, 2025

1 in 55,300

Marquise over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marquise: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marquis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marquise means

Marquise is a variant of Marquis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marquise → 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, 10,603 boys were recorded with the name Marquise between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 644 in 1995; its best national rank was #372 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,588 in 2020 to #2,324 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,306 in 2015 to #2,324 in 2025.

In the United States, 392 girls were recorded with the name Marquise between 1966 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,446 in 1989.

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 Marquise?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,324
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marquise 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marquise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marquises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marquise was born before 1998 — so the typical Marquise is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,603
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (4,670).

Is Marquise 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
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−736
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,018
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.3%
Peak was 1995 (644)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#372
1995

Spellings of Marquise

Marquise is not the most common spelling — Marquis is, with 51.8% against Marquise's 22.3%.

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 Marquise is used

Across 2016–2025, Marquise was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 23,489 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 10,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 11,111
  3. 3Ohio1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  7. 7Missouri1 in 20,000
  8. 8Maryland1 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.

Marquise around the world

Where Marquise 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
    1996–2008
    #3,687
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1995–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007

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 Marquise

People whose public names include Marquise, 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.

Marquise by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,324
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 736
Best rank ever
#372
1995
Peak year
1995
644 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,603
Count in 2025
60

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,446
1989
Peak year
1989
30 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
392
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marquise

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

MarcelloMarianoMarcellusMarceloMarquesMarcelinoMarshawnMarquezMarshalMargaritoMarcellMarkellMarquisMarkeithMarkeiseMarkusMarquellMarqueseMarcianoMarquelMarcelMartellMarleyMarlin

Names with a curve like Marquise

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

AustenDeonteDevanDandreTravonDaquanZackeryDavonJaquanDashawnDarionTylor

Sibling names for Marquise

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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