Marquêz
surname · Latin script
Marquêz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Márquez, patronymic form of Marcos. Marquêz is also written Маркеш in Cyrillic, มาร์เควซ in Thai and 마르케스 in Korean (Hangul).
- UYUruguay1 in 169(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 180
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 430
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marquêz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #294 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Marquêz in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Marquez in MX Mexico, US United States, VE Venezuela and 4 more and Márquez in UY Uruguay.
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 Spanish Márquez, patronymic form of Marcos.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Marquêz is found
(measured from records)Marquêz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #61 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 436 | 5.6K | Marquez | 232 |
| VE Venezuela | #26 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | 1K | Marquez | 114 |
| PH Philippines | #39 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 972 | — | Marquez | 137 |
| US United States | #335 | 107,533 | 1 in 3.1K | 108K | Marquez | 476 |
| ES Spain | #52 | 72,097 | 1 in 694 | 72K | Marquez | 203 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 26,243 | 1 in 644 | 26K | Marquez | 61 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 19,994 | 1 in 169 | 20K | Márquez | 81 |
| SV El Salvador | #77 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 431 | 15K | Marquez | 51 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marquêz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Márquez, patronymic form of Marcos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marquêz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 300 thousand people named Marquêz in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marquez. After it come Venezuela, Philippines, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Marquêz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marquêz is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 169 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marquêz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107,533 people named Marquêz in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Marquêz compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Marquêz is the 61st most common surname of 206,803 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, “Marquêz” — ranked 62nd in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.