Marquitta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marquitta has been given to 1,183 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 138 recorded.
Babies named Marquitta, 2005
1 in 769,000
Marquitta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marquitta?
Marquitta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marquitta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marquitta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marquittas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marquitta was born before 1984 — so the typical Marquitta is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,146
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (591).
Is Marquitta 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 1983 (138)
- Years since peak
- 42
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.8% average annual change
Spellings of Marquitta
Marquitta is not the most common spelling — Marquita is, with 62.9% against Marquitta's 6.8%.
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 Marquitta is used
Across 1910–2025, Marquitta was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 337,784 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Illinois1 in 100,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Tennessee1 in 100,000
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. Marquitta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marquitta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marquitta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marquitta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.