Marshel
Marshel was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 533 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marshel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marshel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,762, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1923, the peak
Marshel peaked in 1923, when 20 boys were given it, #1,795 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #8,762 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,074 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,427 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,057 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,893 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,158 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,884 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,886 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,881 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,270 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 6 | #3,823 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,280 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,651 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,589 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,553 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,552 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,202 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,458 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,828 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,904 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,741 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,357 | 7.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,035 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,606 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,131 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,275 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,287 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,255 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,894 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,205 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,175 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,825 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,582 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,720 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,839 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,987 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,165 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,765 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,980 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,575 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,795 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,303 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,329 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,853 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,114 | 15.3 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,347 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,658 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,088 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,976 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,582 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,101 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,989 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,909 | 22.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marshel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 533 Americans recorded as Marshel, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marshel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marshel, and how old are they?
An estimated 130 Americans named Marshel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 57 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Marshel (80 women and girls, 204 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 106,257 babies since 1880, Marshel is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,011 babies recorded by SSA was a Marshel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marshel
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 Marshel and names like it
- Compare Marshel and MarshallBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarshel peaked in 1923.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marshel since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Marshel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marshel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.