Given name & surname
Marques
“a lord of the borderlands; a nobleman”
Marques is a variant of Marquis. One French interpretation is “a lord of the borderlands; a nobleman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Marques is a variant of Marquis. One French interpretation is “a lord of the borderlands; a nobleman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Marques is a variant of Marquis. An origin associated with Marquis is French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1952. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marques through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8,093
- 8,070 boys · 23 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 350 babies
- 2025
- 23
- #4,487 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 23 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,487 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 36.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 350 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,006 as a first name in 2020; 7,792 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marques’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Marques as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Márquez. Marques has a related form in Marquis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marques
- MarquesBrazilian association football playerborn 1973
- Marques JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1956)
- Marques BrownleeAmerican technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personalityborn 1993
- Marques HoustonAmerican actor, singer and dancerborn 1981
- Marques BoldenAmerican-born Indonesian basketball playerborn 1998
- Marques HaynesAmerican basketball player (1926–2015)
- Marques ColstonAmerican football playerborn 1983
- Marques GreenAmerican basketball playerborn 1982
- Marques BraggAmerican basketball player (born 1970)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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