girls:
11k births since 1919
#1496 (74th percentile)
boys:
30 births since 1983
#4556 (1st percentile)
overall:
11k births since 1919
#2507 (68th percentile)
The name Marquita is the #2,507 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,040 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 67.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,496 (73.8% percentile) for all time with 11,010 births since 1919. For boys, it ranks #4,556 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1983.
Marquita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Marquita is available in 93 out of the 97 years between 1919 and 2015 (93 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Marquita has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marquita reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 85.9% percentile (ranked #110) with 1,421 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 1,421 births per million (ranked 85.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Marquita reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #672) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marquita".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Marquita. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Marquita is pronounced as mahr-KEE-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahrk-WEE-tuh, at 19.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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