Unisex name · since 1979
Marquee
Since 1979, U.S. Social Security records show 227 babies named Marquee, peaking in 2015. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 227
- total births
- 1979–2020
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 30%
- born in that decade
Marquee sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 227 recorded since 1979.
Marquee has 227 recorded births among boys since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 2020.
- 227 total births
- 1979–2020 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 30% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marquee's 227 recorded births place it above 73% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marquee's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Marquee's SSA record in two at 1998 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1979, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2015 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Marquee popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–2020
- Peak year (2015)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 42 years of records
Marquee popularity over time - girls
34 total births recorded since 1991 (Marquee as girls' name)
Marquee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Marquee's strongest decade.
69 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 30% of all-time use.
Marquee births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
49 births
- 1990s
1990s
69 births
- 2000s
2000s
45 births
- 2010s
2010s
54 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 69 births (30% of all-time use).
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- Marquee's decade-level peak was the 1990s (69 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marquee: Baby Name Since 1979 - 227 Births, Peak 2015." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marquee. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Marquee draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.