Meaning and history
Marquis is a noble title derived from the Old French marche, meaning “march” or “borderland”; it originally referred to a ruler of borderlands within a realm.
20062006: 455 births, rank #551
2007: 452 births, rank #569
2008: 445 births, rank #577
2009: 410 births, rank #613
2010: 375 births, rank #643
20112011: 333 births, rank #695
2012: 300 births, rank #763
2013: 275 births, rank #799
2014: 270 births, rank #835
2015: 230 births, rank #928
20162016: 223 births, rank #939
2017: 201 births, rank #1,007
2018: 207 births, rank #998
2019: 223 births, rank #957
2020: 169 births, rank #1,149
20212021: 153 births, rank #1,245
2022: 141 births, rank #1,330
2023: 136 births, rank #1,369
2024: 124 births, rank #1,459
20252025: 99 births, rank #1,668
Marquis moved from #939 to #960 for boys between 2016 and 2019. Its highest annual birth count came in 1990, with 1,037 births.