Marquess

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɑɹkwɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Marquess is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 456K(measured from records)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 133K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 207K

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.

United States (measured from records)

730 people, 2010

Sources
188 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marquess 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 Marquess is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7301 in 456K730Marquess188
DZ Algeria≈320 est.≈1 in 133K—Marquess1
GB United Kingdom≈120 est.≈1 in 554K—Marquess48
IT Italy≈41 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Marquess3
BR Brazil341 in 6.2M34—1
IE Ireland≈25 est.≈1 in 207K—Marquess2
NZ New Zealand≈18 est.≈1 in 273K—Marquess1

730 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Marquess is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Marquéss, Márqúéss, Marqűess, Marquëss, Marquêss

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Marquëss

  • German surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany

    Also written Marqueß

40 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)

Marquess 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.

  • variant of Marquis.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Marquess
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010730#31,656
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020701#34,739
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000672#32,302
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—34#136,957
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Marquess mean, and where does it come from?
A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Marquess?
A machine transcription gives /mɑɹkwɪs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Marquess have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 730 people named Marquess, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marquess.
How common is the name Marquess?
In the United States, the national register counted 730 people named Marquess in 2010, about 1 in 456 thousand residents.

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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, “Marquess”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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