Meaning not yet researched.
Marques: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #448 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #448 in 1984; #4,487 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marques in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,487 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #448.
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Marques: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #448 in 1984 · most boys in one year: 350 (1984).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Marques, making it the 4,487th most common boys’ name of the year, down 913 places from #3,574 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 32 boys named Marques in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #448, reached in 1984. That year also had the most boys given the name: 350. For comparison, it was #2,180 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marques in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 7 babies. In all, 8,093 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,439 babies named Marques.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 352 US boys were named Marques; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcus (242,999 babies since 1880), Marquis (25,041 babies since 1880), Markus (14,947 babies since 1880) and Marquise (10,995 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marque, Marqez and Marcquez are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marque (1,175), Marqez (27), Marcquez (25).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marques in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,487 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,574 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,557 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,255 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,583 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,543 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,923 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,146 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,438 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,457 |
| 2015 | — | — | 63 | #2,180 |
| 2014 | — | — | 76 | #1,915 |
| 2013 | — | — | 93 | #1,641 |
| 2012 | — | — | 102 | #1,555 |
| 2011 | — | — | 113 | #1,457 |
| 2010 | — | — | 176 | #1,094 |
| 2009 | — | — | 167 | #1,109 |
| 2008 | — | — | 206 | #973 |
| 2007 | — | — | 245 | #856 |
| 2006 | — | — | 255 | #801 |
| 2005 | — | — | 271 | #747 |
| 2004 | — | — | 228 | #793 |
| 2003 | — | — | 202 | #855 |
| 2002 | — | — | 149 | #1,030 |
| 2001 | — | — | 142 | #1,040 |
| 2000 | — | — | 169 | #915 |
| 1999 | — | — | 196 | #785 |
| 1998 | — | — | 177 | #832 |
| 1997 | — | — | 182 | #809 |
| 1996 | — | — | 236 | #692 |
| 1995 | — | — | 224 | #711 |
| 1994 | — | — | 148 | #894 |
| 1993 | — | — | 184 | #780 |
| 1992 | — | — | 133 | #922 |
| 1991 | — | — | 159 | #822 |
| 1990 | — | — | 157 | #816 |
| 1989 | — | — | 157 | #794 |
| 1988 | — | — | 171 | #720 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,712 | 168 | #706 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,087 | 203 | #629 |
| 1985 | — | — | 223 | #589 |
| 1984 | — | — | 350 | #448 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,623 | 343 | #449 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,589 | 315 | #478 |
| 1981 | — | — | 272 | #512 |
| 1980 | — | — | 214 | #592 |
| 1979 | — | — | 146 | #717 |
| 1978 | — | — | 171 | #642 |
| 1977 | — | — | 179 | #631 |
| 1976 | — | — | 84 | #910 |
| 1975 | — | — | 103 | #821 |
| 1974 | — | — | 33 | #1,539 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,182 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,085 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,433 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,198 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,240 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,980 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,789 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,984 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,231 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,206 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,444 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,859 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,446 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,904 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,278 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).