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First name origins & meanings:

  1. African American: Noble
  2. Portuguese: Warlike

First name variations: Marqes, Marqis, Marquez, Marquis

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Portuguese: patronymic from the personal name Marcos.
  2. Southern French (Occitan), Catalan (Marquès), and Spanish (Marqués): from marqués ‘marquis’, from the French word, either a nickname for someone who behaved like a marquis or an occupational nickname for a servant in the household of a marquis.