First name origins & meanings:
- African American: Noble
- Portuguese: Warlike
First name variations: Marqes, Marqis, Marquez, Marquis Last name origins & meanings:
- Portuguese: patronymic from the personal name Marcos.
- 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.
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