Girls' name · since 1972
Marquietta
12 babies named Marquietta in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 12
- total births
- 1972–1988
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Marquietta sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 12 recorded since 1972.
Marquietta has 12 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 1988.
- 12 total births
- 1972–1988 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marquietta's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marquietta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Marquietta splits its recorded history at 1988: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1972 (6 births).
Marquietta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–1988
- Peak year (1972)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Marquietta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Marquietta's strongest decade.
6 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Marquietta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 6 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Marquietta's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (6 total births) through the 1980s (6) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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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, 1972–1988 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marquietta: Baby Name Since 1972 - 12 Births, Peak 1972." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marquietta. 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 Marquietta 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.