Marquita

Where Marquita comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Marquita.

  • Vowel-ended
Marquita through the years
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #3,005 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  5. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #417.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.