Marquis
Marquis reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 258, and has been recorded 25,041 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,668th. About 24,000 Marquises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marquis boys named Marquis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 25,041
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 258th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,668th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 474 / 24,567
How old the living Marquises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 25,041 babies given the name since 1880, about 24,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 4,300 of them are children and 180 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Marquiss
- Marquis de Sade (1740–1814)French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
- Marquis Daniels (born 1981)American basketball player
- Marquis Teague (born 1993)American basketball player
- Marquis Johann von Pallavicini (1848–1941)Hungarian diplomat
People named Marquis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marquis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marquis is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (3.2×), Georgia (2.7×), Florida (2.6×), South Carolina (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Marquis peaked:
Marquis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Marquis | 16 | 3,208th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Marquis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.