Marqués

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Marqués is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 89th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Marco / Marcos + -es. Compare Spanish Márquez.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 3.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 44K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

15,229 people

Sources
313 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

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 US United States, ES Spain, 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.

Sources 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)

Marqués 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.

Where Marqués is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—15,2291 in 3.3K15KMarques75
US United States—7,5201 in 44K7.8KMarques313
CH Switzerland#3435,2151 in 1.6K5.2KMarques45
AR Argentina—3,6621 in 12K3.7K—3
UY Uruguay—1,0441 in 3.2K1K——
GY Guyana—3591 in 2.1K359—6
LU Luxembourg#89——666Marques18

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: 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); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marqués is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Marques, Marqueś, Marquès, Márques, Marqúes

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Portugal

    Also written Marques, Marquès, Marquês

  • Portuguese surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese

    Also written Marques, Marquês, Marquès, Márques, Marqües

  • Catalan surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra, Spain

    Also written Marques, Marquès, Marquês

  • Spanish surname148 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Venezuela, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Marquez, Márquez, Marquéz, Màrquez, Маркеш

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Marques, Marquès, Marquês

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marqués is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, masculine plural of marqué

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Occitan, marquess

    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)

16001700180019002000Lourenço Marques, b. 1600Raquel Meller, b. 1888Luís Marques Mendes, b. 1957Tarso Marques, b. 1976Denis Marques, b. 1981Renan Marques, b. 1983Luiz Felipe Fonteles, b. 1984Rúben Amorim, b. 1985Carlos Eduardo Marques, b. 1987Allan Marques Loureiro, b. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Marqués
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Marqués 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 Marqués have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Marqués, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marques.
Where is Marqués most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marqués 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 Marqués?
In Spain, the national register counted 15,229 people named Marqués, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
How common is Marqués compared with other names?
In Luxembourg, Marqués is the 89th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Marqués” — the 89th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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