Marquis

8,206 people in the United States were counted with the surname Marquis in the 2020 census, making it the 4,182nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 36,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,206
Rank: 4,182nd
How common: 1 in 36,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Marquis described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.7%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Marquis

Don Marquis (1878–1937)American humorist

People named Marquis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Marquis

Also a first name

Marquis has been given to 25,041 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.