Markell
Markell was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,064 among boys’ names; 4,936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,810 Americans named Markell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markell?
#3,064 among boys’ names, 2025
Markell fell from #1,748 in 2015 to #3,064 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 45.9 to 23.4 per million.
185 babies in 2005, the peak
Markell peaked in 2005, when 185 babies were given it (176 boys, #985 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,064 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,494 | 31.9 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,118 | 40.3 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,484 | 32.1 |
| 2021 | 75 | #1,991 | 42.9 |
| 2020 | 88 | #1,757 | 51.0 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,118 | 37.9 |
| 2018 | 83 | #1,829 | 45.7 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,676 | 51.3 |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,546 | 56.9 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #1,748 | 45.9 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,510 | 55.7 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,539 | 55.0 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,486 | 57.5 |
| 2011 | 132 | #1,301 | 69.5 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,203 | 77.7 |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,098 | 85.2 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,152 | 77.4 |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,169 | 73.2 |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,100 | 77.8 |
| 2005 | 176 | #985 | 88.1 |
| 2004 | 139 | #1,137 | 70.0 |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,182 | 63.8 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,144 | 64.4 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,017 | 75.1 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,062 | 68.7 |
| 1999 | 151 | #958 | 78.6 |
| 1998 | 159 | #905 | 83.2 |
| 1997 | 137 | #963 | 72.7 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,083 | 59.1 |
| 1995 | 165 | #837 | 86.7 |
| 1994 | 164 | #831 | 84.9 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,172 | 46.4 |
| 1992 | 84 | #1,228 | 42.1 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,162 | 44.5 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,261 | 37.5 |
| 1989 | 62 | #1,390 | 31.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,535 | 25.1 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,625 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 50 | #1,411 | 27.2 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,633 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,750 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,992 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,391 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,245 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,684 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,438 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,340 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,883 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,300 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,103 | 14.1 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,629 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,285 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,385 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,760 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,002 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,233 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,977 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,819 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,203 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Markell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,936 Americans recorded as Markell, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 40 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Markell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markell, and how old are they?
4,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,936 Americans ever recorded as Markell. The median Markell alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,481 people named Markell (240 women and girls, 3,241 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 234 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Markell born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,817 | 0.5× |
Where Markell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Markell is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1962 it was given 1.6 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 boys’ 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 Markell 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 36,938 babies since 1880, Markell is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 501 babies (8.0%), again the third most given.
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 Markell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Markel | 4,829 | |
| Maximillian | 5,968 | |
| Brennon | 4,382 | |
| Quran | 1,998 | |
| Chancellor | 2,648 | |
| Nikolas | 24,050 |
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 Markell and names like it
- Compare Markell and MarcelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarkell peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markell since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Markell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Markell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.