Marquitta
Marquitta was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 1,183 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Marquitta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 38 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquitta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquitta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,197, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
138 babies in 1983, the peak
Marquitta peaked in 1983, when 138 girls were given it, #1,022 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,197 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,790 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,335 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,193 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,022 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,126 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,286 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,595 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,196 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,115 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 27 | #3,920 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,411 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,828 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,789 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,680 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,348 | 25.9 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,097 | 29.7 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,597 | 43.6 |
| 1984 | 128 | #1,090 | 76.0 |
| 1983 | 138 | #1,022 | 82.6 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,224 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,809 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,279 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,153 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,414 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,704 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,763 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,467 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,509 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,974 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,869 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,240 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,810 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,311 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,915 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,502 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,868 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,393 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,854 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,326 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,178 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,721 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,134 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,516 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,769 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,724 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,710 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,874 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,219 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,315 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,792 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,736 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,819 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,423 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,363 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,721 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquitta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marquitta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marquitta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquitta, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,183 Americans ever recorded as Marquitta. The median Marquitta alive today is 42 years old; half are between 38 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 946 people named Marquitta (945 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,130 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 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 98 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 246 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 712 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 46 |
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).
How common is the spelling Marquitta?
Marquitta is a less common spelling of Marquita: SSA has recorded 1,183 Marquitta and 11,041 Marquita since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,607 babies since 1880, Marquitta is the third most given (8.1% 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 Marquitta
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 Marquitta and names like it
- Compare Marquitta and MarquitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarquitta peaked in 1983.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquitta since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Marquitta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marquitta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.