as a Last Name
- 8,270
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Marquis
Meaning & Origins
French (of Norman origin) and English: nickname for someone who behaved like a marquis or an occupational name for a servant in the household of a marquis, from Old Northern French marquis. The title originally referred to the governor of a border territory (from a Germanic word; compare March 1 and Mark 2). Marquises did not form part of the original French feudal structure of nobility; the title was first adopted by the Counts of Toulouse because of their possessions in the border region beyond the Rhône.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,270
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Marquis per capita
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