How rare is the name Marquita?

8,771 people in the United States have the first name Marquita, about 1 in 34,435. It ranks #2,677 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MARQUITA

#2,677

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,771
About
1 in 34,435
This common or more
80.5%
Who bears it

Of the 8,771 people named Marquita, 81.1% reported their origin as Black, 10.5% as White and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Marquita peaked in 1983, when 2,563 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19192015
Peak year
1983
Births that year
2,563
In 2015
6 ▼100%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,041 babies have been given the name since 1919. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Marquita by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #698. The largest share of babies named Marquita, 67.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1910s#10,10610
1920s#6,04380
1930s#3,324179
1940s#2,489352
1950s#2,234574
1960s#2,197676
1970s#1,7771,202
1980s#6986,288
1990s#2,1311,427
2000s#9,692212
2010s#26,45441
Greatest Generation 1901–270.6%
Silent Generation 1928–453.5%
Baby boom 1946–649.8%
Generation X 1965–8015.1%
Millennials 1981–9667.2%
Generation Z 1997–123.8%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Marquita is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marquita has been most common in District of Columbia (4.4×), Mississippi (4.1×), and Georgia (2.7×), and least common in Washington (0.24×).

8,332 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Marquita

1 other first name also has 8,771 people.

#2,677 Antwan · 8,771

Either side of Marquita

#2,676 Yessenia · 8,776#2,677 Antwan · 8,771#2,679 Hilario · 8,764#2,679 Keagan · 8,764

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Marquita, most common first.

#7,456 Markita · 2,047#8,411 Marquetta · 1,724#12,935 Marquitta · 946#31,941 Marqueta · 266#33,047 Markeita · 252#33,126 Mariquita · 251#34,642 Margita · 235#38,294 Marquet · 201

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