Marquitta
Feminine · “Little marquis”
Marquitta doubles a t and borrows a Spanish ending, and no language in the name would write it this way. Spanish makes Marquita with one t; Italian would hold a doubled one longer than English does; and English has no reason for the doubling at all, since the vowel before it is already short.
How old is the name Marquitta?
Marquitta first appears in US birth records in 1938 — 87 years ago. The typical Marquitta alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,100 people named Marquitta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marquitta most popular?
Marquitta peaked in 1983, reaching #1019 nationally. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From marchis to Marquitta
The story of Marquitta
The feminine of the title has done a surprising amount of work in English. A marquise is a marchioness; it is also a shape of gemstone cut, a long pointed oval said to have been commissioned to resemble a particular courtier's mouth; and it is the origin of the word marquee, which came from the large tent set up for a marquise at a field encampment, was misheard in English as a plural, and was reanalysed into a singular. So the word for a woman married to a border lord now means a canopy over a theater entrance and a cut of diamond, and the path from one to the other runs through a tent and a spelling mistake.
Meaningscholars disagree
Little marquis, loosely
The front is a French title of nobility that American naming took up as a name and then used as raw material. The ending is the Spanish diminutive. The combination is not a word or a name in either language, and it means something like a small holder of a border province, which nobody intended.
How the name formed
- marchis
- Marquis
- Marquita
- Marquitta
Related forms: Marquita
Pronouncing Marquitta
mar-KEE-tuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The qu is a plain k, as it is in French and Spanish alike, and the doubled t changes nothing that can be heard.
Nicknames for Marquitta
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
- 1938
- Most girls named
- 1983138 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1019reached in 1983
- Change vs 2002
- −37.5%5 in 2005, from 8
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.
Marquitta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marquita in Spanish — same name
Marquittas among us
people named Marquitta 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
Marquitta 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 rhythm is easy and every sound in it is available to an English speaker.
- Quita and Marq are two short forms in different languages and registers.
- The front half has a real history that can be checked.
- Marquita with one t is the Spanish form and will be written instead.
- The doubling belongs to no language in the name and will be corrected by speakers of all of them.
- It is closely dated to one American generation.
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- How many Marquittas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Marquitta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Marquitta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Marquitta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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