Marquise
Marquise was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,324 among boys’ names; 10,995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,700 Americans named Marquise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquise?
#2,324 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquise fell from #1,306 in 2015 to #2,324 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 71.0 to 35.1 per million.
673 babies in 1995, the peak
Marquise peaked in 1995, when 673 babies were given it (644 boys, #372 among boys’ names). The 60 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,324 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,332 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 78 | #1,978 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,689 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 93 | #1,744 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,588 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,580 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,518 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 113 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,528 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 136 | #1,306 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,327 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,231 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 153 | #1,185 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 171 | #1,090 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,065 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 226 | #919 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 224 | #916 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 216 | #917 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 234 | #857 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 238 | #807 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 261 | #730 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 280 | #691 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 282 | #663 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 296 | #634 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 336 | #590 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 412 | #517 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 517 | #442 | 0.27 |
| 1997 | 574 | #404 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 543 | #417 | 0.29 |
| 1995 | 644 | #372 | 0.34 |
| 1994 | 502 | #448 | 0.26 |
| 1993 | 433 | #486 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 343 | #551 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 369 | #520 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 333 | #552 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 278 | #587 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 196 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 142 | #774 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 113 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 109 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 102 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 85 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 39 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,663 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,370 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,995 Americans recorded as Marquise, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 60 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 Marquise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquise, and how old are they?
10,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 10,995 Americans ever recorded as Marquise. The median Marquise alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 7,873 people named Marquise (368 women and girls, 7,505 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 357 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
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 Marquise born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,670 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,818 | 0.7× |
Where Marquise is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marquise is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1966 it was given 1.9 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 Marquise 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 12,382 babies since 1880, Marquise is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 66 babies (91%), 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 Marquise
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 Marquise and names like it
- Compare Marquise and MarqueseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquise peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquise since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Marquise.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marquise alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.