Marquetta
Marquetta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 198491 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1929
- 2,130people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,130 girls have been named Marquetta in the United States since 1929, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 91 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 91 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1980s alone account for 32%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marquetta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | |
| 1930s | 46 | |
| 1940s | 116 | |
| 1950s | 209 | |
| 1960s | 246 | |
| 1970s | 404 | |
| 1980s | 688 | |
| 1990s | 353 | |
| 2000s | 55 | |
| 2010s | 6 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Marquetta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1984 were Jennifer, Jessica, Ashley, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Marquetta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shareepeak 1979
- Sherellpeak 1987
- Laquettapeak 1987
- Candancepeak 1981
- Kandrapeak 1988
- Stephaniepeak 1990
- Randipeak 1982
- Kristanpeak 1985
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.