Marques
Marques was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,486 among boys’ names; 8,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,750 Americans named Marques and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marques by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marques?
#4,486 among boys’ names, 2025
Marques fell from #2,180 in 2015 to #4,486 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 32.9 to 13.5 per million.
350 babies in 1983, the peak
Marques peaked in 1983, when 350 babies were given it (343 boys, #449 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,486 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,572 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,553 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,579 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,541 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 42 | #2,921 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,143 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,437 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,457 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,180 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 76 | #1,914 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 93 | #1,640 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,457 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,094 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,109 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 206 | #973 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 245 | #856 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 255 | #801 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 271 | #747 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 228 | #793 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 202 | #854 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,039 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 169 | #913 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 196 | #783 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 177 | #831 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 182 | #807 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 236 | #691 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 224 | #708 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 148 | #891 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 184 | #778 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 133 | #919 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 159 | #818 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 157 | #812 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 157 | #791 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 171 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 168 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 203 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 223 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 350 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 343 | #449 | 0.19 |
| 1982 | 315 | #478 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 272 | #512 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 214 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 146 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 171 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 179 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 84 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 103 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 33 | #1,539 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,196 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,276 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marques a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marques has been given almost only to boys: 23 girls in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marques: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marques, and how old are they?
7,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,093 Americans ever recorded as Marques. The median Marques alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 6,006 people named Marques (34 women and girls, 5,972 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,688 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 43 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 917 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 580 |
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 Marques born?
The states with the most babies named Marques are California, Texas and New York, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 896 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 493 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 417 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 385 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 383 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 375 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 309 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 251 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 230 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 194 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Marques is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marques is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1952 it was given 1.6 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 Marques 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 34,544 babies since 1880, Marques is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 122 babies (19%), again the second most given.
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 Marques
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 Marques and names like it
- Compare Marques and MarquisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarques peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marques since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Marques.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marques alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.