Marque — boys' name

What the Data Says About Marque

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,035 babies named Marque between 1951 and 2023, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marque currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Marque is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 140 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marque performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 275 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Marque shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Marque in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marque in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,035 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.