Marquez

Where Marquez comes from

Marquez 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
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #3,595 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Marquez Valdes-Scantling born
    American football player
  3. 1998
    Marquez Callaway born
    American football player
  4. 1998
    Peak, #664
    258 babies named Marquez — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,377.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Marquez Valdes-Scantling · American football player, born 1994
  • Marquez Callaway · American football 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.