Marquise is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Marquise is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1332 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,331 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 8,479 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marquise. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Marquise is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Marquise - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 341 in 1995. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Marquise really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marquise was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
102 babies were named Marquise in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,582,608 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Marquise ranked 1,523 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Marquise, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 34 states are home to men and boys named Marquise. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Marquise living in one state or another. If your name is Marquise and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Maryland, which has the most people named Marquise relative to the population, you still have to ask 7,603 men and boys their names before you hear Marquise as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With eight letters, the name Marquise is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Marquise and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marquise, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marquise sounds like this:
