Marquitta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marquitta

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,183 babies named Marquitta between 1938 and 2005, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marquitta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 138 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marquitta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 591 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Marquitta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Marquitta in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marquitta 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 1,183 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.