Marques

Where Marques comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Marques.

Marques through the years
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #3,095 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Marques Johnson born
    American basketball player
  3. 1973
    Marques Batista de Abreu born
    Brazilian association football player
  4. 1984
    Peak, #447
    350 babies named Marques, the most in any year.
  5. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #705.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.