Marqueta
Marqueta was last recorded in 1997, when 6 babies were given it; 253 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marqueta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marqueta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,122, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1983, the peak
Marqueta peaked in 1983, when 28 girls were given it, #3,034 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #13,122 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,888 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,332 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,817 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,974 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,994 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,642 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,904 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,289 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,034 | 16.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #8,821 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,874 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,997 | 6.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,059 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,801 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,991 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,311 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,030 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,315 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,201 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,737 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,191 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,723 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,525 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,444 | 3.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,104 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marqueta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marqueta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marqueta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marqueta, and how old are they?
An estimated 237 Americans named Marqueta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 39 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 266 people named Marqueta (265 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Marqueta?
Marqueta is a less common spelling of Marquetta: SSA has recorded 253 Marqueta and 2,130 Marquetta since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,607 babies since 1880, Marqueta is the fourth most given (1.7% of them).
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 Marqueta
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 Marqueta and names like it
- Compare Marqueta and MarquettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarqueta peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Marqueta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marqueta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.