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Marquita

Girls' name

Variant of Marquis

Marquita has been given to 11,041 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1983, with 2,543 recorded.

Babies named Marquita, 2015

1 in 617,000

Marquita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marquita: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marquis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marquita means

Marquita is a variant of Marquis.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marquita is used in African American.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marquita → 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, 11,011 girls were recorded with the name Marquita between 1919 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 2,543 in 1983; its best national rank was #112 in 1983.

In the United States, 30 boys were recorded with the name Marquita between 1983 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1983; its best national rank was #2,466 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 Marquita?

Marquita 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 Marquita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marquita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marquitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marquita was born before 1983 — so the typical Marquita is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,390
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (6,258).

Is Marquita 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (2,543)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#112
1983

Marquita’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1983, 2,543 girls were named Marquita — about #112 that year — roughly 5.6× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Marquita

Marquita is the most-used spelling, taking 34.7% of the 31,732 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Marquita is used

Across 1910–2025, Marquita was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 17,640 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 4,348
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,762
  3. 3Georgia1 in 7,143
  4. 4Alabama1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 8,333
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 8,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 10,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 10,000

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. Marquita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marquita around the world

Where Marquita 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.

  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marquita

People whose public names include Marquita, 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.

Marquita in other languages

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

Mariquita

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

Marquita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#112
1983
Peak year
1983
2,543 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
11,011
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,466
1983
Peak year
1983
20 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marquita

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

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Names with a curve like Marquita

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

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Sibling names for Marquita

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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