Girls' name · since 1974
Marquisa
Marquisa has 195 recorded births since 1974 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1988 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 195
- total births
- 1974–2002
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 44%
- born in that decade
Marquisa is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 195 have been recorded since 1974.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Marquisa has been recorded 195 times among girls since 1974, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 1980s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 2002.
- 195 total births
- 1974–2002 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 44% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marquisa's 195 recorded births place it above 72% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marquisa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Marquisa's SSA record in two at 1988 and the more recent half accounts for 54% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 46%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1997, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1988 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Marquisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–2002
- Peak year (1988)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Marquisa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Marquisa's strongest decade.
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Marquisa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 32
1970s
32 births
- 1980s
1980s
85 births
- 1990s
1990s
67 births
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 85 births (44% of all-time use).
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- Marquisa's decade-level peak was the 1980s (85 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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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, 1974–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marquisa: Baby Name Since 1974 - 195 Births, Peak 1988." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marquisa. 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 Marquisa 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.