Marshell
Marshell was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 1,561 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marshell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marshell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,841, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1970, the peak
Marshell peaked in 1970, when 43 babies were given it (12 boys, #2,820 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,841 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,418 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,200 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,138 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,629 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,952 | 7 | #8,399 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,510 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,288 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,753 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,542 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 7 | #11,232 | 5 | #9,325 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,017 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,721 | 5 | #8,763 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,939 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,136 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,361 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,333 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,760 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,678 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,189 | 7 | #5,393 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,854 | 10 | #4,038 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,161 | 6 | #5,973 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,621 | 7 | #5,170 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,417 | 5 | #6,425 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,407 | 5 | #6,476 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,074 | 7 | #4,743 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,059 | 6 | #5,214 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,806 | 7 | #4,457 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,888 | 8 | #3,935 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,240 | 12 | #2,938 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,449 | 11 | #3,087 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,427 | 12 | #2,820 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,975 | 6 | #4,240 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,258 | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,750 | 8 | #3,146 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,904 | 16 | #2,018 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,327 | 12 | #2,428 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,061 | 12 | #2,504 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,829 | 12 | #2,492 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,244 | 10 | #2,784 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,549 | 10 | #2,829 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,877 | 13 | #2,391 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,830 | 11 | #2,615 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,180 | 12 | #2,457 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,245 | 11 | #2,590 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,079 | 12 | #2,447 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,962 | 5 | #4,198 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,624 | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,875 | 17 | #1,933 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,107 | 18 | #1,839 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 10 | #2,593 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,821 | 18 | #1,786 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 17 | #1,856 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 14 | #2,080 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 15 | #2,044 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,829 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 21 | #1,479 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 14 | #1,942 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 20 | #1,616 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 22 | #1,518 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 13 | #2,056 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 16 | #1,774 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 13 | #2,020 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 23 | #1,423 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 18 | #1,670 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 16 | #1,769 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 18 | #1,694 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 18 | #1,711 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 15 | #1,882 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 17 | #1,826 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 14 | #2,066 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 25 | #1,484 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 22 | #1,591 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 20 | #1,741 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 17 | #2,004 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 20 | #1,766 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 11 | #2,690 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 17 | #2,019 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 11 | #2,715 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 12 | #2,582 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 19 | #1,871 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 10 | #2,892 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 12 | #2,458 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 15 | #2,128 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 9 | #2,873 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 11 | #2,484 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,682 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 11 | #2,057 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,684 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Marshell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,561 Americans recorded as Marshell, 41% are girls and 59% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marshell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marshell, and how old are they?
An estimated 952 Americans named Marshell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 48 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 807 people named Marshell (549 women and girls, 258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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, Marshell is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,011 babies recorded by SSA was a Marshell (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 Marshell
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 Marshell and names like it
- Compare Marshell and MarshallBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarshell peaked in 1970.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marshell since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Marshell.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marshell alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.