Marquette comes from the Modern American tradition, meaning "Big market".
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How popular is Marquette?
1992peak year
Today, Marquette is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #7933), with only about 11 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1992, 50 babies were given the name (ranked #1719 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1980s. Marquette has been declining in recent years. In all, around 1,929 babies have been registered as Marquette since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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