Mardell
Mardell was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 2,264 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mardell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mardell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,417, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1927, the peak
Mardell peaked in 1927, when 67 babies were given it (62 girls, #974 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #11,417 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,427 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,221 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,736 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,788 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,622 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,311 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,080 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,396 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,300 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 11 | #4,381 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,437 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,112 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,381 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,281 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,167 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,991 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,136 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,695 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,717 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,424 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,613 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,585 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,515 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,163 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,810 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 39 | #1,544 | 21.0 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,905 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,779 | 16.9 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,582 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,481 | 23.0 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,328 | 27.1 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,385 | 25.5 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,436 | 24.5 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,727 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,097 | 38.7 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,220 | 31.8 |
| 1941 | 54 | #997 | 44.7 |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,073 | 40.2 |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,034 | 43.8 |
| 1938 | 53 | #981 | 48.0 |
| 1937 | 49 | #1,010 | 46.1 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,018 | 45.2 |
| 1935 | 59 | #899 | 56.3 |
| 1934 | 59 | #891 | 56.5 |
| 1933 | 56 | #911 | 55.6 |
| 1932 | 67 | #852 | 62.8 |
| 1931 | 58 | #917 | 54.5 |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,152 | 37.3 |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,023 | 45.7 |
| 1928 | 61 | #960 | 52.9 |
| 1927 | 62 | #974 | 52.0 |
| 1926 | 66 | #921 | 55.7 |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,028 | 44.4 |
| 1924 | 61 | #982 | 48.8 |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,047 | 43.9 |
| 1922 | 51 | #1,074 | 42.5 |
| 1921 | 65 | #925 | 52.7 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,222 | 33.4 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,230 | 33.6 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,319 | 29.4 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,231 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,725 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,244 | 32.5 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,790 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,295 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,075 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,887 | 19.1 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,974 | 18.8 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,519 | 25.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mardell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,264 Americans recorded as Mardell, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mardell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mardell, and how old are they?
An estimated 774 Americans named Mardell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,132 people named Mardell (986 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Mardell born?
The states with the most babies named Mardell are Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin and Iowa are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 141 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 111 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Iowa | 92 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Minnesota | 75 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Nebraska | 30 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Mardell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mardell is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mardell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,597 babies since 1880, Mardell is the most given (87% 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 Mardell
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 Mardell and names like it
- Compare Mardell and MardelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMardell peaked in 1927.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mardell since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Mardell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mardell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.