Marquitta
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 138 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,183since 1938
Marquitta over time
Rank among girls' names. Marquitta has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 |
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| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
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| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 |
| 1988 | #2,646 | 40 |
| 1987 | #2,332 | 45 |
| 1986 | #2,079 | 51 |
| 1985 | #1,588 | 75 |
| 1984 | #1,087 | 128 |
| 1983 | #1,019 | 138 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
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| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
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| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marquitta! It came in at #3,450, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939–1943, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Marquitta is popular in 1984
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#300 · 1 in 1,671
- South Carolina#496 · 1 in 3,527
- North Carolina#501 · 1 in 4,262
- Georgia#514 · 1 in 3,966
- Tennessee#518 · 1 in 4,573
Best ever in a state: #277 in Mississippi, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #300 | 9 | 1 in 1,671 |
| South Carolina | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,527 |
| North Carolina | #501 | 8 | 1 in 4,262 |
| Georgia | #514 | 9 | 1 in 3,966 |
| Tennessee | #518 | 6 | 1 in 4,573 |
| Maryland | #543 | 5 | 1 in 4,577 |
| Alabama | #553 | 5 | 1 in 4,307 |
| Illinois | #605 | 14 | 1 in 5,187 |
| Florida | #699 | 10 | 1 in 6,167 |
| Ohio | #736 | 8 | 1 in 8,647 |
| Pennsylvania | #872 | 6 | 1 in 11,341 |
| Michigan | #916 | 5 | 1 in 11,272 |
| New York | #1,289 | 7 | 1 in 14,910 |
| Texas | #1,810 | 5 | 1 in 26,085 |
| California | #2,137 | 6 | 1 in 32,100 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Marquitta
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
- Debuted 1938
- Peaked 1983 at #1,019 (138 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,106 girls born in 1983 were named Marquitta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 369,568 girls born in 2005 (0.00%)
- 50.0% of all girls named Marquitta (591) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 7 | #3,450 (1938) | #3,450 |
| 1940s | 30 | #3,612 (1949) | #4,633 |
| 1950s | 55 | #3,571 (1955) | #4,574 |
| 1960s | 99 | #3,608 (1961) | #4,493 |
| 1970s | 184 | #2,820 (1972) | #3,696 |
| 1980s | 591 | #1,019 (1983) | #2,365 |
| 1990s | 198 | #2,799 (1990) | #6,111 |
| 2000s | 19 | #11,108 (2002) | #13,575 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marquitta in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 13,155 of them was named Marquitta, which outranked 91.1% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).