Marquis

Where Marquis comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Marquis.

Marquis through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys, with 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1981
    Marquis Daniels born
    American basketball player
  3. 1990
    Peak, #258
    1,037 babies named Marquis, the most in any year.
  4. 1993
    Marquis Teague born
    American basketball player
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #501.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Marquis Daniels · American basketball player, born 1981
  • Marquis Teague · American basketball player, born 1993
  • Marquis Grissom · American professional baseball player, outfielder, coach, born 1967
  • Marquis Hill · American composer, born 1987
  • Marquis Wright · American basketball player, born 1995

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.