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Marquis

The name Marquis carries the meaning "French title", with roots in French. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

FrenchFrench title
EtymologyMeaning "nobleman ranking below a duke"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
84
1920s
103
1930s
79
1940s
94
1950s
170
1960s
265
1970s
1,732
1980s
5,078
1990s
9,006
2000s
4,954
2010s
2,204
Peaked in the 1990s · 23,769 total U.S. births since 1900