Marquez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Marcos
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/markɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 451
- ESSpain1 in 694
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #294 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
patronymic from the personal name Marcos.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marquez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #26 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 1K | Marquez | 114 |
| US United States | #335 | 107,533 | 1 in 3.1K | 108K | Marquez | 476 |
| PH Philippines | #39 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Marquez | 137 |
| ES Spain | #52 | 72,097 | 1 in 694 | 72K | Marquez | 203 |
| AR Argentina | #121 | 55,091 | 1 in 826 | 55K | Marquez | 130 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 26,243 | 1 in 644 | 26K | Marquez | 61 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 19,994 | 1 in 169 | 20K | Márquez | 81 |
| SV El Salvador | #77 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 451 | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marquez is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Marcos
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, pers. name. Spanish; see also Garcia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of marquês.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, most associated with:
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)
- Lourenço Marquesb. 1600not in their usual namePortuguese explorer
- Luís Marques Mendesb. 1957PTnot in their usual namePortuguese politician
- Vanessa Marquezb. 1968USAmerican actress (1968–2018)
- Tarso Marquesb. 1976BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian racing driver
- Denis Marquesb. 1981BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Rúben Amorimb. 1985PTnot in their usual namePortuguese professional football manager and former player
- Carlos Eduardo Marquesb. 1987BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Allan Marques Loureirob. 1991BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1991)
- Frank Chamizob. 1992CUnot in their usual nameCuban-Italian wrestler (born 1992)
- Ramona Marquezb. 2001GBBritish actress
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)
Attested in 56 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108K | #287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106K | #291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 80K | #357 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 72K | #58 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 72K | #58 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 26K | #162 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20K | — |
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 15K | #88 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 367 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Marquez mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Marcos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marquez?
- A machine transcription gives /markɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Marquez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Marquez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marquez.
- Where is Marquez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marquez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 169 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marquez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107,533 people named Marquez in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Marquez compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Marquez is the 26th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marquez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marquezThe 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, “Marquez” — the 26th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.