Marquisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marquisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,314 babies named Marquisha between 1972 and 2011, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marquisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 97 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marquisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 653 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Marquisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 102 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Marquisha in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marquisha 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 1,314 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.