Marques
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish surname meaning “marquis”; from a nickname or stage role
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ˈmah.kis/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Marques is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 13th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 2.1K
- UYUruguay1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #807 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Spanish surname meaning “marquis”; from a nickname or stage role.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Marques is found
(measured from records)Marques counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2.3K | Marques | 5 |
| ES Spain | #276 | 15,229 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Marques | 147 |
| US United States | — | 7,520 | 1 in 44K | 7.8K | Marques | 338 |
| CH Switzerland | #118 | 5,215 | 1 in 1.6K | 5.2K | Marques | 101 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,662 | 1 in 12K | 3.7K | Marques | 75 |
| UY Uruguay | #574 | 1,044 | 1 in 3.2K | 1K | Marques | 39 |
| GY Guyana | — | 359 | 1 in 2.1K | 359 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #13 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 666 | Marques | 37 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Marques is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Southern French (Occitan), Catalan (Marques), and Spanish (Marques): from marques ‘marquis’, from the French word, either a nickname for someone who behaved like a marquis or an occupational nickname for a servant in the household of a marquis.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Portuguese, patronymic from the personal name Marcos.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Portuguese, second-person singular present subjunctive of marcar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
APMalki (from Malaga, Spain); adaptation of Al'Malki
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, 293 Belege; portugiesisches Patronym zu Rufname Marcus.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Luís Marques Mendesb. 1957PTPortuguese politician
- Rúben Amorimb. 1985PTnot in their usual namePortuguese professional football manager and former player
- Allan Marques Loureirob. 1991BRBrazilian association football player (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)54 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marques mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish surname meaning “marquis”; from a nickname or stage role. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Marques?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ˈmah.kis/ (Wiktionary); in French /maʁk/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marques?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Marques in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marques. After it come Spain, United States, Switzerland and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Marques most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marques is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marques?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,229 people named Marques, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Marques compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Marques is the 13th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marquesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marques” — the 13th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.