Marquice
Masculine · “One who holds a border province”
Marquice respells a title, and the title is about a frontier: a marquis was the man who held a march, and a march was a border province that needed defending rather than governing.
How old is the name Marquice?
Marquice first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Marquice alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 800 people named Marquice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marquice most popular?
Marquice peaked in 1991, reaching #1725 nationally. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marquis to Marquice
The story of Marquice
The same word is all over the map of Europe. The Welsh Marches, the Spanish March, the Marches of Italy, Denmark itself — the mark of the Danes — are all border districts named with it, and the ranks that grew out of governing them are marquess, marquis and margrave. The logic was military: an interior county could be run by a count, but a frontier needed somebody with more authority and more troops, so the border title outranked the inland one. A name taken from that title carries an old piece of administrative reasoning about who gets the extra power and why.
Meaning
One who holds a border province
The word comes from a Germanic term for a boundary, which gave the French marche, a frontier district. The man responsible for one ranked above a count precisely because the job was harder and more dangerous.
How the name formed
- Marquis
- Marquice
Related forms: Marquis · Marchese
Pronouncing Marquice
mar-KEESE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The French title is said the same way, with the final s silent in French and sounded here.
Nicknames for Marquice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 199147 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1725reached in 1991
- Change vs 2021
- −30.0%7 in 2022, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marquice in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marquis in French — same name
- Marchese in Italian — same name
Marquices among us
people named Marquice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Marquice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The back stress gives it a strong finish.
- The word behind it is real, specific and has a good story.
- It is read correctly on sight in this spelling, which the French one is not.
- Marquis and Marquise are both in use and his will be written as one of them.
- It is a title, which some people find grand and others find heavy.
- The French spelling is silent where this one is not.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marquices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Marquice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marquice in 2025?
- Marquice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Marquice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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