Meaning not yet researched.
Marquis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 99 in 2025. Its best rank was #258 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #258 in 1990; #1,672 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marquis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,672 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #258.
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Marquis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 99 boys in 2025. Peak: #258 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 1,037 (1990).
In 2025, 99 US boys were named Marquis, making it the 1,672nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 206 places from #1,466 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 124 boys named Marquis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #258, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,037. For comparison, it was #928 in 2015 and #1,733 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marquis in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 25,041 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,006 babies named Marquis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,676 US boys were named Marquis; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 223. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,253 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marquis ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #648 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcus (242,999 babies since 1880), Markus (14,947 babies since 1880), Marquise (10,995 babies since 1880) and Marques (8,093 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marquies, Markeis and Marquize are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Marquies (450), Markeis (302), Marquize (149), Marquiz (125), Marquiese (44), Marcquise (38), Markquis (36), Marquess (28), Marqueis (22), Marquees (21), Marquiez (16), Marquiss (11), and more.
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 Marquis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #648 | #467 |
| Georgia | 9 | #962 | #646 |
| Michigan | 7 | #971 | #659 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,086 | #761 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,136 | #659 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,364 | #1,002 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,577 | #736 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,718 | #1,137 |
| California | 7 | #2,124 | #1,106 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 99 | #1,672 |
| 2024 | — | — | 124 | #1,466 |
| 2023 | — | — | 136 | #1,375 |
| 2022 | — | — | 141 | #1,335 |
| 2021 | — | — | 153 | #1,249 |
| 2020 | — | — | 169 | #1,151 |
| 2019 | — | — | 223 | #960 |
| 2018 | — | — | 207 | #1,004 |
| 2017 | — | — | 201 | #1,009 |
| 2016 | — | — | 223 | #939 |
| 2015 | — | — | 230 | #928 |
| 2014 | — | — | 270 | #838 |
| 2013 | — | — | 275 | #802 |
| 2012 | — | — | 300 | #764 |
| 2011 | — | — | 333 | #697 |
| 2010 | — | — | 375 | #644 |
| 2009 | — | — | 410 | #614 |
| 2008 | — | — | 445 | #577 |
| 2007 | — | — | 452 | #569 |
| 2006 | — | — | 455 | #552 |
| 2005 | — | — | 471 | #523 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,842 | 583 | #446 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,078 | 534 | #469 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,762 | 457 | #501 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,952 | 531 | #455 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,416 | 586 | #422 |
| 1999 | — | — | 616 | #398 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,938 | 732 | #357 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,610 | 801 | #329 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,257 | 897 | #296 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,175 | 913 | #289 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,606 | 959 | #283 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,334 | 999 | #282 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,972 | 914 | #295 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,601 | 965 | #276 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,777 | 1,037 | #258 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,632 | 798 | #302 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,856 | 659 | #326 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,797 | 550 | #354 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,646 | 484 | #380 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,999 | 504 | #364 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,824 | 458 | #382 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,050 | 415 | #398 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,273 | 379 | #430 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,651 | 335 | #451 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,885 | 311 | #476 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,503 | 288 | #488 |
| 1978 | — | — | 254 | #515 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,663 | 234 | #545 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,897 | 169 | #633 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,036 | 156 | #662 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,620 | 142 | #688 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,033 | 128 | #712 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,086 | 100 | #802 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,002 | 92 | #853 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,806 | 87 | #865 |
| 1969 | — | — | 45 | #1,178 |
| 1968 | — | — | 36 | #1,272 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,435 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,604 |
| 1965 | — | — | 20 | #1,799 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,529 |
| 1963 | — | — | 19 | #1,876 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,415 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,804 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,391 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,900 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,457 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,068 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,799 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,887 |
| 1954 | — | — | 21 | #1,691 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,933 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,220 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #2,021 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,733 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,552 |
| 1948 | — | — | 15 | #1,996 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,218 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,634 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,516 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,775 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,874 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,643 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,802 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,770 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,739 |
| 1938 | — | — | 13 | #2,059 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,849 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,878 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,974 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,007 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,479 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,411 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,418 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,855 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,983 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,669 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,674 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,147 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,769 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,292 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,430 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,329 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,545 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,220 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,277 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,441 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,346 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,976 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,929 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,762 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,174 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,762 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,194 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #720 |
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).