Marquice — boys' name
835 babies named Marquice in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Marquice was born in this single decade.
47 babies were named Marquice in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marquice
The Social Security Administration has registered 835 babies named Marquice between 1980 and 2022, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marquice currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 47 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marquice performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 350 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Marquice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Marquice in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marquice 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 835 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.
Marquice at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marquice popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1980
- Peak year (1991)
- 47
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
835 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 47 births in a single year.
Marquice by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 350 births that decade — 42% of Marquice's all-time total
Marquice decade highlights
- Peak decade 350 births
- Runner-up 203 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Marquice's strongest decade
350 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Marquice by state
Where Marquice concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 55 | 6.6% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 11 | 1.3% |
| #3 | Michigan | | 10 | 1.2% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 10 | 1.2% |
| #5 | Texas | | 10 | 1.2% |
| #6 | Alabama | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Florida | | 5 | 0.6% |
55 of 835 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.6% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.3% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.2% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.2% of nationwide
- Texas 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.