Girls' name · since 1981
Marqueshia
52 babies named Marqueshia in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 52
- total births
- 1981–2001
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 62%
- born in that decade
52 girls have been named Marqueshia since 1981, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Marqueshia has 52 recorded births among girls since 1981, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls 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 1981 to 2001.
- 52 total births
- 1981–2001 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 62% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marqueshia's 52 recorded births place it above 52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marqueshia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Marqueshia's SSA record in two at 1991 and the more recent half accounts for 60% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 40%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1981, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1992 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Marqueshia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1981–2001
- Peak year (1992)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Marqueshia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Marqueshia's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 62% of all-time use.
Marqueshia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
15 births
- 1990s
1990s
32 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 32 births (62% of all-time use).
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- Marqueshia's decade-level peak was the 1990s (32 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- 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, 1981–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marqueshia: Baby Name Since 1981 - 52 Births, Peak 1992." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marqueshia. 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 Marqueshia 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.