Marquita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marquita

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,010 babies named Marquita between 1919 and 2015, spanning 97 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marquita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 2,543 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marquita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 6,258 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Marquita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 962 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marquita in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marquita 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 11,010 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.