Marquise
- Pronunciation
- [Mar-quise]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Royalty: French Royalty Title.
- Origin
- French
Marquise Popularity Snapshot
Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 392 baby girls have been named Marquise. The name peaked in 1989 with 30 US births that year (rank #3452).
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8-Letter Names Starting with M
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Quick Facts About Marquise
US Popularity History (2000–2009)
Annual US births named Marquise by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 336 boys named Marquise (boy rank #590 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2009, ranked #918 for boys (226 US births). That's 328 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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