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Marquette
How to Pronounce Marquette
Pronounced mar-KET /mɑːrˈkɛt/Medium
Meaning: Marquette is a French surname adopted as a given name, most famous from the Jesuit explorer Jacques Marquette and the university and Michigan city named for him; it is used here as a girl's name.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Marquette is a French family name carried into American usage through Jacques Marquette, the seventeenth-century Jesuit explorer of the Great Lakes and Mississippi. His name was later attached to a university, a city, and a county, and from those it drifted into occasional first-name use.
As a girl's given name it is genuinely rare, only a few dozen a year around its 1984 high, worn as a place-honoring or heritage choice rather than from any naming tradition. Its crisp French '-ette' ending gives it an elegant sound.
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What does the name Marquette mean?
Marquette is a French surname and place name, famous from explorer Jacques Marquette, used here for a girl.
How do you pronounce Marquette?
It's said mar-KET /mɑːrˈkɛt/ — two syllables, stress on the second.
Is Marquette a boy or girl name?
Marquette is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Marquette?
Marquette is very rare as a given name, worn mostly as a place-honoring choice.