Marquan
Marquan was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,319 among boys’ names; 1,895 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Marquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquan?
#6,319 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquan fell from #3,483 in 2015 to #6,319 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 8.2 per million.
91 babies in 1997, the peak
Marquan peaked in 1997, when 91 boys were given it, #1,269 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,319 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,078 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,552 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,640 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,447 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,618 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,274 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,033 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,634 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,965 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,483 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,735 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,033 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,277 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,725 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,668 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,431 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,223 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 75 | #1,906 | 36.1 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,073 | 31.1 |
| 2005 | 63 | #1,995 | 31.5 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,038 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 72 | #1,707 | 36.4 |
| 2002 | 76 | #1,599 | 39.1 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,852 | 30.9 |
| 2000 | 78 | #1,544 | 39.7 |
| 1999 | 72 | #1,548 | 37.5 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,412 | 42.4 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,269 | 48.3 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,449 | 37.5 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,328 | 41.0 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,259 | 44.5 |
| 1993 | 63 | #1,479 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,611 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,778 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,528 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,742 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,155 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,654 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,029 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,239 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,820 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,956 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,112 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,467 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marquan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquan, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,895 Americans ever recorded as Marquan. The median Marquan alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,296 people named Marquan (15 women and girls, 1,281 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,747 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 494 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 344 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Marquan born?
The states with the most babies named Marquan are Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 163 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 161 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 159 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 95 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 84 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Marquan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marquan is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1977 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marquan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,281 babies since 1880, Marquan is the most given (83% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marquan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marquan and names like it
- Compare Marquan and MarquonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquan peaked in 1997.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquan since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Marquan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marquan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.