Marquita

Where Marquita comes from

Marquita 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #3,005 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Marquita Rivera born
    Puerto Rican musician
  3. 1974
    Marquita Bradshaw born
    American environmentalist and politician
  4. 1983
    Peak, #112
    2,543 babies named Marquita — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #417.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Marquita Rivera · Puerto Rican musician, 1922–2002
  • Marquita Bradshaw · American environmentalist and politician, born 1974

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.