Marquis
Marquis was given to 99 boys in 2025, #1,672 among boys’ names; 25,041 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,700 Americans named Marquis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquis?
#1,672 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquis fell from #928 in 2015 to #1,672 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.12 to 0.06 per 1,000.
1,065 babies in 1990, the peak
Marquis peaked in 1990, when 1,065 babies were given it (1,037 boys, #258 among boys’ names). The 99 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,672 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,466 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,375 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,335 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 153 | #1,249 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 169 | #1,151 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 223 | #960 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,004 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 201 | #1,009 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 223 | #939 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 230 | #928 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 270 | #838 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 275 | #802 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 300 | #764 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 333 | #697 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 375 | #644 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 410 | #614 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 445 | #577 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 452 | #569 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 455 | #552 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 471 | #523 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 583 | #446 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 534 | #469 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 457 | #501 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 531 | #455 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 586 | #422 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 616 | #398 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 732 | #357 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 801 | #329 | 0.42 |
| 1996 | 897 | #296 | 0.47 |
| 1995 | 913 | #289 | 0.48 |
| 1994 | 959 | #283 | 0.50 |
| 1993 | 999 | #282 | 0.51 |
| 1992 | 914 | #295 | 0.46 |
| 1991 | 965 | #276 | 0.48 |
| 1990 | 1,037 | #258 | 0.50 |
| 1989 | 798 | #302 | 0.40 |
| 1988 | 659 | #326 | 0.34 |
| 1987 | 550 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 484 | #380 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 504 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 458 | #382 | 0.25 |
| 1983 | 415 | #398 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 379 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1981 | 335 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 311 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 288 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 254 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 234 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 169 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 156 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 142 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 128 | #712 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 100 | #802 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 92 | #853 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 87 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,272 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,603 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,798 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,528 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,875 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 31 | #1,414 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #1,803 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,899 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,456 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,798 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,886 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #1,690 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,932 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,732 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,551 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,995 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,633 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,801 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,739 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,059 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,478 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,981 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,146 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,429 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,276 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,440 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,173 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,761 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1880 | 8 | #720 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 25,041 Americans recorded as Marquis, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 99 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marquis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquis, and how old are they?
23,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 25,041 Americans ever recorded as Marquis. The median Marquis alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 17,235 people named Marquis (347 women and girls, 16,888 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,270 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 223 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,430 |
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 Marquis born?
The states with the most babies named Marquis are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,718 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 9 | #962 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,577 | 1.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,124 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 7 | #971 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,086 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #648 | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,364 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,136 | 1.1× |
Where Marquis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marquis is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 Marquis 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 34,544 babies since 1880, Marquis is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 99 of their 122 babies (81%), 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 Marquis
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 Marquis and names like it
- Compare Marquis and MarquesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquis peaked in 1990.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquis since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Marquis.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marquis alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.