Marquis

Where Marquis comes from

Marquis hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1981
    Marquis Daniels born
    American basketball player
  3. 1990
    Peak, #258
    1,037 babies named Marquis — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    Marquis Teague born
    American basketball player
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #501.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marquis Daniels · American basketball player, born 1981
  • Marquis Teague · American basketball player, born 1993
  • Marquis Grissom · American professional baseball player, outfielder, coach, born 1967
  • Marquis Hill · American composer, born 1987
  • Marquis Wright · American basketball player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.