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In the entire world, Маркиз (Marquis , Torcy , Markiz ) is a common primarily masculine, but very seldom girly first name. The first name Маркиз is characteristic of the United States, where it is quite a rare male name, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in the United States, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria. Likewise, Маркиз is the last name as well as the forename.
Маркиз is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Marquis de Montauran , the Honoré de Balzac character, Les Chouans; Marquis St. Evrémonde , the Fictional character in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities; Marquis de Ronquerolles , the Honoré de Balzac character, La Comédie humaine; Major Marquis Warren , the character in the movie The Hateful 8, The Hateful Eight and Marquis de Carabas , the character of Puss in Boots, and in many other works.