Family name origins & meanings
- French : topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, Old French marque (Germanic marca); or a habitational name from places named Lamarque or La Marque.
- French : metonymic nickname for someone with a noticeable birthmark or scar, or for someone who had been disfigured by branding (a relatively common medieval punishment), from Old French marque ‘mark’ (a transferred use of 1).