Marquell
Marquell was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,511 among boys’ names; 1,581 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Marquell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marquell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marquell?
#11,511 among boys’ names, 2025
Marquell fell from #3,839 in 2015 to #11,511 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 3.5 per million.
77 babies in 1994, the peak
Marquell peaked in 1994, when 77 babies were given it (69 boys, #1,410 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,511 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,079 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,140 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,782 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,262 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,968 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,080 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,435 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,223 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,249 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,839 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,637 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,022 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,087 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,486 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,217 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,024 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,143 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,416 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,776 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,286 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,554 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,082 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,353 | 22.7 |
| 2001 | 75 | #1,592 | 38.6 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,456 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,045 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,888 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,713 | 30.2 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,409 | 39.6 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,422 | 36.8 |
| 1994 | 69 | #1,410 | 35.7 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,685 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,986 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,779 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,645 | 24.3 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,747 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,894 | 18.3 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,999 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,821 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,899 | 16.8 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,667 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,778 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,614 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,036 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,971 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,287 | 7.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,468 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,740 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,875 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marquell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,581 Americans recorded as Marquell, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Marquell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marquell, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,581 Americans ever recorded as Marquell. The median Marquell alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,067 people named Marquell (43 women and girls, 1,024 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 612 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 654 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 236 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,932 babies since 1880, Marquell is the second most given (32% 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 Marquell
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 Marquell and names like it
- Compare Marquell and MarquelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarquell peaked in 1994.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marquell since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Marquell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marquell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.