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Marques

Gender
Boy
Say it
MAR-kez
Origin
Portuguese
US rank, 2025
#4,395 for boys

Marques is a boys' name of Portuguese origin, meaning “son of Marcos”. In 2025 it ranked 4,395th for boys in the US (23 babies).

What does Marques mean?

Portuguese: Portuguese surname from Marcos; also a spelling of Marquis

“son of Marcos”

A Portuguese surname meaning son of Marcos; in the US it is also used as a spelling of Marquis.

Is Marques a girl's or a boy's name?

Marques is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Marques in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 9 boys.

1999Busiest: 9 in 20042013
Marques in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20133#4,884
20120–
20113#4,837
20103#4,865
20090–
20080–
20076#2,873
20067#2,386
20050–
20049#1,831
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19993#3,043

How popular is Marques in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,395among boys
Babies in 2025
23about 1 in 74,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 29% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 23 boys in the US were named Marques, making it the 4,395th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,495th. Its busiest year was 1984, with 350 boys. It first appears in the records in 1952.

Half of all the boys named Marques in the US since 1880 were born between 1984 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 65 boys in the US were given Marques or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,889, up from #4,395 for this spelling alone.

1952Busiest: 350 in 19842025
Marques in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202523#4,395
202432#3,522
202323#4,452
202237#3,214
202122#4,490
202031#3,495
201942#2,896
201837#3,104
201753#2,416
201652#2,437
201563#2,169
201476#1,906
201393#1,635
2012102#1,551
2011113#1,448
2010176#1,092
2009167#1,103
2008206#968
2007245#856
2006255#801
2005271#744
2004228#790
2003202#854
2002149#1,025
2001142#1,034
2000169#912
1999196#782
1998177#830
1997182#806
1996236#685
1995224#706
1994148#889
1993184#774
1992133#914
1991159#815
1990157#808
1989157#789
1988171#718
1987168#705
1986203#628
1985223#588
1984350#447
1983343#449
1982315#478
1981272#511
1980214#589
1979146#715
1978171#642
1977179#629
197684#905
1975103#818
197433#1,520
197319#2,122
197211#2,989
197116#2,365
197010#3,069
19696#3,934
19686#3,672
19670–
19660–
19656#3,535
19649#2,853
19638#3,043
19628#3,039
19615#4,063
19600–
19596#3,618
19580–
19577#3,255
19569#2,796
19550–
19540–
19530–
19527#3,092

Names like Marques

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Perez Luca Marcus Cruz Marco Luis Miguel Iago Lucas Crue Spencer Moses

Other spellings of Marques

Marquez

Names related to Marques

Markus Markuss Marquis Marquise Markese Marquese Marqus

More Portuguese names

Zaire Lua Vasco Romario Sereia Luar Diogo Evora Brazil Aires Mariaalice Tavares Anajulia Tavaris Joia Marialuiza

Every Portuguese name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Marques: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/marques, updated 20 October 2026.