Marquez
Marquez was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,964 among boys’ names; 5,641 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,490 Americans named Marquez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquez?
#2,964 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquez fell from #2,031 in 2015 to #2,964 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.0 to 24.6 per million.
258 babies in 1998, the peak
Marquez peaked in 1998, when 258 boys were given it, #664 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,964 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,314 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,830 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,815 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,343 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,107 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,056 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,949 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 73 | #1,967 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,778 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,031 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 89 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 79 | #1,821 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,382 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 138 | #1,265 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 172 | #1,081 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 162 | #1,131 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,062 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,111 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 185 | #947 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 176 | #954 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 185 | #902 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 174 | #921 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 186 | #865 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 209 | #786 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 231 | #712 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 258 | #664 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 218 | #718 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 226 | #702 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 204 | #750 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 163 | #834 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 185 | #771 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 167 | #810 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 129 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 139 | #867 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 132 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 105 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,809 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marquez has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marquez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquez, and how old are they?
5,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,641 Americans ever recorded as Marquez. The median Marquez alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 4,114 people named Marquez (61 women and girls, 4,053 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,260 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 132 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 834 |
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 Marquez born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,769 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,421 | 0.6× |
Where Marquez is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marquez is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1969 it was given 5.1 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 Marquez 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,766 babies since 1880, Marquez is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 42 babies (100%), again the 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 Marquez
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 Marquez and names like it
- Compare Marquez and MarquizBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquez peaked in 1998.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquez since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Marquez.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marquez alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.