Marquita
Feminine
Marquita is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 11,011 girls against 30 boys since 1880.
Marquita is built the way Spanish builds affection: take a name, add -ita, and the result is smaller and warmer than what you started with. The question is which name it started from, and there are two good answers.
How old is the name Marquita?
Marquita first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Marquita alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 10,000 people named Marquita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marquita most popular?
Marquita peaked in 1983, reaching #112 nationally. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marcius to Marquita
The story of Marquita
Spanish forms diminutives with -ito and -ita as a matter of course, and the ending is applied to names as freely as to nouns: Juanita, Anita, Carmelita, Rosita. Marquita belongs to that pattern, and it entered American records through Spanish-speaking communities before spreading well beyond them in the second half of the twentieth century, peaking in the early 1980s alongside a broader fashion for names ending in -ita and -isha.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Two readings. As a diminutive of Marca or Marcia, it descends from the Roman Marcius and so from Mars — 'of Mars'. As a diminutive of Marqués, it is from the title marquis, itself from a Germanic word for a border march. The Spanish diminutive ending -ita carries affection rather than meaning, so everything depends on the stem.
How the name formed
- Marcius
- Marca
- Marquita
Related forms: Marquita · Marisa · Markita
Pronouncing Marquita
mar-KEE-tuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The qu is said as a hard k, exactly as in Spanish.
Nicknames for Marquita
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
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 19841,374 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #112reached in 1983
- Change vs 2012
- −33.3%6 in 2015, from 9
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.
Marquita in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marquita in Spanish — same name
- Marisa in Spanish — related form
- Markita in English — spelling variant
Marquitas among us
people named Marquita 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
Marquita has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is formed by a real and productive Spanish rule rather than invented from nothing.
- Three syllables with a strong middle, which carries well when spoken across a room.
- It works in Spanish and English-speaking contexts without adjustment.
- The stem is genuinely ambiguous between two unrelated words.
- Markita is also in use, so the spelling has to be given.
- In American records the name is closely tied to the 1980s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marquitas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,000 people named Marquita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marquita in 2025?
- Marquita is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Marquita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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