Mardel
Mardel was last recorded in 1966, when 7 babies were given it; 264 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mardel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mardel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,594, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1952, the peak
Mardel peaked in 1952, when 13 girls were given it, #3,134 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 7 | #5,594 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,396 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,173 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,871 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,388 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,190 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,530 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,260 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,511 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,426 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 13 | #3,134 | 7.0 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,186 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,529 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,032 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,604 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,261 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,983 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,930 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,045 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,974 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,776 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,164 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,078 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,349 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,094 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,011 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,669 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,350 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,968 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,169 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,013 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,163 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,613 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,800 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,090 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,297 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mardel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mardel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mardel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mardel, and how old are they?
An estimated 131 Americans named Mardel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 69 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 312 people named Mardel (262 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mardel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Mardel?
Mardel is a less common spelling of Mardell: SSA has recorded 264 Mardel and 2,264 Mardell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,747 babies since 1880, Mardel is the second most given (9.6% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mardel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mardel and names like it
- Compare Mardel and MardellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMardel peaked in 1952.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mardel since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Mardel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mardel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.