Marques
Where Marques comes from
Marques 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
- 1952First appearance#3,095 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1956Marques Johnson bornAmerican basketball player
- 1973Marques Batista de Abreu bornBrazilian association football player
- 1984Peak, #447350 babies named Marques — more than any year before or since.
- 1987The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #705.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Marques Batista de Abreu · Brazilian association football player, born 1973
- Marques Johnson · American basketball player, born 1956
- Marques Brownlee · American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality, born 1993
- Marques Houston · American actor, singer and dancer, born 1981
- Marques Bolden · American-born Indonesian basketball player, born 1998
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.