Marquise

Where Marquise comes from

Marquise 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #2,682 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1990
    Marquise Goodwin born
    American football player
  4. 1995
    Peak, #370
    644 babies named Marquise — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1997
    Marquise Brown born
    American football player
  6. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #634.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Marquise Goodwin · American football player, born 1990
  • Marquise Brown · American football player, born 1997
  • Marquise Moore · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Marquise Lepage · Canadian film director and screenwriter, born 1959
  • Marquise Auramornrat · Thai singer, born 2006

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.