Marquita
Marquita was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 11,041 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,100 Americans named Marquita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 39 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,723, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
2,563 babies in 1983, the peak
Marquita peaked in 1983, when 2,563 babies were given it (2,543 girls, #112 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,723 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,865 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,898 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,946 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,597 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,197 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,307 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,839 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,689 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,440 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 20 | #6,126 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,620 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,380 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,601 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,378 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,966 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,354 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,012 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,939 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,616 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 138 | #1,245 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 219 | #885 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 227 | #873 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 246 | #829 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 255 | #790 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 304 | #668 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 315 | #633 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 364 | #553 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 440 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 535 | #417 | 0.31 |
| 1984 | 1,374 | #195 | 0.82 |
| 1983 | 2,543 | #112 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 128 | #1,102 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 135 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 120 | #1,139 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 127 | #1,084 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 127 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 119 | #1,095 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 114 | #1,075 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 108 | #1,088 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 153 | #857 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 122 | #977 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 118 | #1,004 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 114 | #1,059 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,160 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,263 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,465 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,293 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 58 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,259 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,514 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 72 | #1,302 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,296 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,237 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 78 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 58 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 60 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,606 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,511 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,996 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,006 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,907 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,797 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,679 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,220 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,291 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,139 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marquita has been given almost only to girls: 30 boys in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marquita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquita, and how old are they?
10,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 11,041 Americans ever recorded as Marquita. The median Marquita alive today is 43 years old; half are between 39 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 8,771 people named Marquita (8,762 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 133 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 853 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,550 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 412 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
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 Marquita born?
The states with the most babies named Marquita are Illinois, Georgia and Texas, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 962 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 630 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 471 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 451 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 451 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 442 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| North Carolina | 432 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 414 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 409 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 388 | not ranked | 2.0× |
Where Marquita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marquita is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1919 it was given 3.2 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 girls’ 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 Marquita 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 14,607 babies since 1880, Marquita is the most given (76% of them).
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 Marquita
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 Marquita and names like it
- Compare Marquita and MarquettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarquita peaked in 1983.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquita since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Marquita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marquita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.