Marquese
Marquese was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,512 among boys’ names; 1,387 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Marquese and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquese by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquese?
#11,512 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquese fell from #6,184 in 2015 to #11,512 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 3.5 per million.
68 babies in 1991, the peak
Marquese peaked in 1991, when 68 boys were given it, #1,371 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,512 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,535 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,669 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,356 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,935 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,883 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,903 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,567 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,580 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,580 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,184 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,178 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,098 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,088 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,766 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,957 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,693 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,397 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,003 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,433 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,545 | 22.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,930 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,708 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,794 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,661 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,236 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 56 | #1,791 | 29.2 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,913 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 52 | #1,826 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 54 | #1,728 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,633 | 29.4 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,699 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,031 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,713 | 25.0 |
| 1991 | 68 | #1,371 | 33.7 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,765 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,226 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,833 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,432 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,475 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,903 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,588 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,749 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,125 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,533 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,297 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,976 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,416 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,469 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,633 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,614 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,019 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquese a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marquese has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marquese: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquese, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,387 Americans ever recorded as Marquese. The median Marquese alive today is 28 years old; half are between 19 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,005 people named Marquese (23 women and girls, 982 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,298 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 529 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 601 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 167 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 12,382 babies since 1880, Marquese is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 66 babies (9.1%), 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 Marquese
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 Marquese and names like it
- Compare Marquese and MarquiseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquese peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquese since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Marquese.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marquese alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.