girls:
392 births since 1966
#5324 (7th percentile)
boys:
10.5k births since 1969
#1141 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.9k births since 1966
#2528 (67th percentile)
The name Marquise is the #2,528 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,871 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 67.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,141 (75.1% percentile) for all time with 10,479 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,324 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 392 births since 1966.
Marquise first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Marquise is available in 56 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marquise has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.4% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1969, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1966 to 1968), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (96.4% boys from 1969 to 2023).
For boys, Marquise reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 55.8% percentile (ranked #354) with 320 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 320 births per million (ranked 55.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marquise ranks #838 for boys (8.0% percentile) with 43 births per million, which is 13.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marquise reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #796) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marquise".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Marquise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.6% confident that Marquise is pronounced as mahr-KEEZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-keez, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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