Marques

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~7,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #4,396 among boys
Births in 2025: 23 8,093 since 1880
Typical age: 30 years, median

Marques popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1952–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1983 is the peak year for Marques, with 350 births. 1952 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. It reaches the top 1,000 in 32 years of the record.

In 2025 it ranked #4,396 with 23 births. The ten-year change is -63%. It slipped 872 places against the previous year.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Marques?

Roughly 7,800 Marquess are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 8,093 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Marques?

Median age among living Marquess: 30. The 1980s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Marques a late 20th-century name.

Your Marques

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Marques

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Marques Johnson	American basketball player	1956	21
Marques Brownlee	American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality	1993	20
Marques Houston	American actor, singer and dancer	1981	15
Marques Bolden	American-born Indonesian basketball player	1998	12
Marques Haynes	American basketball player	1926–2015	11
Marques Bragg	American basketball player	1970	9
Marques Colston	American football player	1983	9
Marques Green	American basketball player	1982	9

Photo credits (6)

Marques Johnson — Associated Students of the University of California at Los Angeles, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marques Brownlee — Marques Brownlee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marques Bolden — TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marques Haynes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marques Colston — Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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