Marquel
Marquel was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,675 among boys’ names; 2,960 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Marquel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquel?
#6,675 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquel fell from #2,749 in 2015 to #6,675 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 7.6 per million.
139 babies in 1995, the peak
Marquel peaked in 1995, when 139 babies were given it (121 boys, #1,009 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,675 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,357 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,110 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,053 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,182 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,540 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,083 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,578 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,929 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,336 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,749 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,786 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,648 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,802 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,534 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,344 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,577 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,612 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,940 | 35.2 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,959 | 33.6 |
| 2005 | 68 | #1,876 | 34.0 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,844 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 74 | #1,679 | 37.5 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,878 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,640 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,325 | 49.4 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,261 | 51.0 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,090 | 61.7 |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,106 | 61.0 |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,107 | 57.0 |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,009 | 63.6 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,064 | 56.9 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,206 | 44.4 |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,084 | 51.6 |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,194 | 42.6 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,227 | 38.9 |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,271 | 36.5 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,583 | 24.0 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,275 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,775 | 19.0 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,821 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 36 | #1,649 | 19.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,632 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,662 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,850 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,685 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,732 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,163 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,860 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,775 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,826 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,630 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,934 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,222 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,431 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,960 Americans recorded as Marquel, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 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 Marquel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquel, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,960 Americans ever recorded as Marquel. The median Marquel alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,160 people named Marquel (263 women and girls, 1,897 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,781 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 158 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 399 |
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 Marquel born?
The states with the most babies named Marquel are Florida, New York and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 136 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 102 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 95 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 94 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 74 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 65 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 61 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Marquel 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 4,932 babies since 1880, Marquel is the most given (60% 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 Marquel
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 Marquel and names like it
- Compare Marquel and MarquellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquel peaked in 1995.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquel since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Marquel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marquel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.