boys:
1.4k births since 1974
#3255 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1974
#6369 (18th percentile)
The name Marquese is the #6,369 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,374 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 17.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,255 (29.0% percentile) for all time with 1,374 births since 1974.
Marquese first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (first recorded for boys in 1974).
For boys, Marquese reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 8.3% percentile (ranked #697) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 32 births per million (ranked 8.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Marquese ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marquese".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Marquese", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 54 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Marquis" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Marquis..
Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Marquese. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.4% confident that Marquese is pronounced as mahrk-WEHS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHRK-weez, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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