# Marques (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marques/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,093 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,070 / 23 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 34, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 11,589 |
| 1983 | 7 | 8,623 |
| 1986 | 5 | 12,087 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,712 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 113 | 1,457 |
| 2012 | 102 | 1,555 |
| 2013 | 93 | 1,641 |
| 2014 | 76 | 1,915 |
| 2015 | 63 | 2,180 |
| 2016 | 52 | 2,457 |
| 2017 | 53 | 2,438 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,146 |
| 2019 | 42 | 2,923 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,543 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,583 |
| 2022 | 37 | 3,255 |
| 2023 | 23 | 4,557 |
| 2024 | 32 | 3,574 |
| 2025 | 23 | 4,487 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2004 | 9 | 1,732 |
| 2006 | 7 | 2,282 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |

## People named Marques

- Marques Batista de Abreu, Brazilian association football player
- Marques Johnson, American basketball player (born 1956)
- Marques Brownlee, American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality
- Marques Houston, American actor, singer and dancer
- Marques Bolden, American-born Indonesian basketball player
- Marques Haynes, American basketball player (1926–2015)
- Marques Green, American basketball player
- Marques Bragg, American basketball player (born 1970)
- Marques Colston, American football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.