Marquis Family History
Marquis Name Meaning
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.Scottish: shortened form of McMarquis (Gaelic Mac
Marcuis), a patronymic from the personal name Marcus (see
Mark).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Marquis Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Marquis families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Marquis families
|
53 - 104 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Marquis families
|
15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Marquis Family Origin
Marquis Immigration Information
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Marquis Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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