Marquès
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Marquès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Marco / Marcos + -es. Compare Spanish Márquez.
- 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
15,229 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marques in ES Spain, US United States, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Marco / Marcos + -es. Compare Spanish Márquez.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marquès 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 15,229 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Marques | 41 |
| US United States | — | 7,520 | 1 in 44K | 7.8K | Marques | 120 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,215 | 1 in 1.6K | 5.2K | Marques | 33 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,662 | 1 in 12K | 3.7K | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,044 | 1 in 3.2K | 1K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 359 | 1 in 2.1K | 359 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #17 | — | — | 666 | Marques | 18 |
15,229 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)Marquès is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, margrave (person appointed to govern a border territory)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Miguel Marquésb. 1843ESSpanish composer and violinist (1843–1918)
- Josep Maria Marquès Garciab. 1862ESSpanish painter (1862–1938)
- Alexandre de Cabanyes i Marquèsb. 1877ESSpanish painter (1877-1972)
- Josep Maria Marquès i Puigb. 1891ESSpanish painter (1890-1950)
- Jean Marquès-Rivièreb. 1903FRFrench writer (1903–2000)
- Francesc Xavier Bultób. 1912ESnot in their usual nameSpanish businessman (1912-1998)
- René Marquèsb. 1923FRFrench politician (1923-2013)
- Aina Moll Marquèsb. 1930ESSpanish scientist and politician (1930-2019)
- Josep Moll Marquèsb. 1934ESSpanish politician and journalist (1934-2007)
- Josep Vicent Marquésb. 1943ESSpanish writer and sociologist (1943–2008)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marquès mean, and where does it come from?
- From Marco / Marcos + -es. Compare Spanish Márquez. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Marquès have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Marquès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marques.
- Where is Marquès most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marquès is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marquès?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,229 people named Marquès, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Marquès compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Marquès is the 17th 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/marqu%C3%A8sThe 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, “Marquès” — the 17th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.