Marquita

Marquita: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“lady; noblewoman”
Origin
Spanish
Say it
mar-KEE-tuh · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

Spanish feminine diminutive of Marca or Marcia, and also associated with Marquita as a feminine form of Marquis/Marquita title-based usage. In English use, it may also reflect Marquita as a form influenced by Markita/Marquetta.

How popular is Marquita?

20240 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Marquita in 20240

Peak year1983

Total US babies since 188011,040

Marquita was not given to enough US babies in 2024 to appear in the records.

Names like Marquita

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Marquismarquis; nobleman · French
  • Jadestone of the side · Spanish
  • Savannahtreeless plain · Spanish
  • Catalinapure · Spanish
  • Amayamother city · Spanish
  • Ximenameaning uncertain · Spanish
  • Aitanafrom the Aitana mountain · Spanish
  • Lolasorrows · Spanish

Marquita questions

What does the name Marquita mean?

Marquita means "lady; noblewoman". It comes from Spanish. Spanish feminine diminutive of Marca or Marcia, and also associated with Marquita as a feminine form of Marquis/Marquita title-based usage. In English use, it may also reflect Marquita as a form influenced by Markita/Marquetta.

Is Marquita a boy or girl name?

Marquita is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Marquita?

Marquita was given to fewer than 5 babies of either sex in 2024; its peak year was 1983.

How do you pronounce Marquita?

Marquita is usually pronounced mar-KEE-tuh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.