Marquita
Marquita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 112th, in 1983.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19832,543 births
- Best rank
- #112in 1983
- Since 1919
- 11,010people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,010 girls have been named Marquita in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1983, with 2,543 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 2,543 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 57%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marquita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 80 | |
| 1930s | 179 | |
| 1940s | 352 | |
| 1950s | 574 | |
| 1960s | 675 | |
| 1970s | 1,202 | |
| 1980s | 6,258 | |
| 1990s | 1,427 | |
| 2000s | 212 | |
| 2010s | 41 |
In 1983, its biggest year
Marquita was the 112th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1983 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 1983.
Names that rose and fell with Marquita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lonipeak 1980
- Marquittapeak 1983
- Thuypeak 1983
- Sheenapeak 1984
- Shennapeak 1984
- Mypeak 1982
- Phuongpeak 1982
- Candicepeak 1982
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.