Marquetta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marquetta

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,130 babies named Marquetta between 1929 and 2015, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marquetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 91 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marquetta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 688 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Marquetta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 118 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Marquetta in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marquetta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,130 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.