Given name
Marquita
“dedicated to Mars, the god of war”
Marquita is a variant of Marcella. In Latin use, Marcella carries the interpretation “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Marquita is a variant of Marcella. In Latin use, Marcella carries the interpretation “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marquita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,041
- 30 boys · 11,011 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 2,563 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 2,543 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,771 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marquita’s family of names
Marquita has a related form in Marcella.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marquita
- Marquita RiveraPuerto Rican musician (1922-2002)
- Marquita BradshawAmerican environmentalist and politicianborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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