Marquee — boys' name
227 babies named Marquee in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
227 boys have been named Marquee since 1979, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2020.
- 227
- total births
- 1979–2020
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 30%
- born in that decade
30% of everyone ever named Marquee was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Marquee in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marquee
The Social Security Administration has registered 227 babies named Marquee between 1979 and 2020, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marquee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Marquee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 34 additional births since 1991.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marquee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 69 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marquee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marquee 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 227 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.
Marquee at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marquee popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1979
- Peak year (2015)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
227 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 12 births in a single year.
Marquee popularity over time — girls
34 total births recorded since 1991 (Marquee as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Marquee accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Marquee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 69 births that decade — 30% of Marquee's all-time total
Marquee decade highlights
- Peak decade 69 births
- Runner-up 54 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Marquee's strongest decade
69 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.