Marvell
Marvell was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,017 among boys’ names; 1,480 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Marvell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marvell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marvell?
#8,017 among boys’ names, 2025
Marvell fell from #6,933 in 2015 to #8,017 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 5.9 per million.
33 babies in 2007, the peak
Marvell peaked in 2007, when 33 boys were given it, #3,355 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 10 | #8,017 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,737 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,738 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,392 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,872 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 13 | #6,648 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,213 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 10 | #7,931 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 14 | #6,224 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 12 | #6,933 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 12 | #6,912 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,309 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,172 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 15 | #5,853 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 24 | #4,191 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 31 | #3,523 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,536 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 33 | #3,355 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 24 | #4,059 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 26 | #3,680 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,401 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 12 | #6,118 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 16 | #4,830 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 21 | #3,922 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 15 | #4,953 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 15 | #4,683 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 14 | #4,793 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 26 | #2,949 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 17 | #3,949 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 19 | #3,510 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 19 | #3,543 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 17 | #3,755 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 16 | #3,853 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 25 | #2,721 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 18 | #3,403 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 16 | #3,547 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 16 | #3,295 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 21 | #2,610 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 14 | #3,369 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 24 | #2,268 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 20 | #2,497 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 20 | #2,468 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 14 | #3,225 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 15 | #2,981 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 13 | #3,366 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 15 | #2,972 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,750 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 18 | #2,524 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 14 | #2,907 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,617 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 14 | #2,752 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 18 | #2,286 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,089 | 16 | #2,387 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 22 | #1,963 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 18 | #2,185 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 17 | #2,100 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 10 | #2,844 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 9 | #2,907 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,909 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,911 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 8 | #3,191 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,267 | 6 | #3,888 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,323 | 15 | #2,157 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 12 | #2,491 | |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,510 | 14 | #2,275 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 12 | #2,493 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,303 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 11 | #2,591 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,145 | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,745 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #3,095 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 11 | #2,483 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,278 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,010 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,756 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,663 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,917 | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,155 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,861 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,437 | |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,988 | 5 | #3,883 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,976 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,407 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,323 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,168 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,694 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,266 | 5 | #3,975 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,359 | 7 | #3,181 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,052 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,589 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,180 | 7 | #3,292 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,639 | 7 | #3,482 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,917 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,540 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,204 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,428 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,558 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,292 | 6 | #4,169 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,275 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,710 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,314 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,510 | 8 | #3,389 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,609 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,730 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,584 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,955 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,709 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,272 | under 5 |
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 Marvell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,480 Americans recorded as Marvell, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Marvell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marvell, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 1,480 Americans ever recorded as Marvell. The median Marvell alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 980 people named Marvell (185 women and girls, 795 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 143 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 204 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 276 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 136 |
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 Marvell born?
The states with the most babies named Marvell are Illinois, Wisconsin and Tennessee, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 122 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Wisconsin | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Marvell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marvell is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1912 it was given 1.7 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 Marvell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marvell
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 Marvell and names like it
- Compare Marvell and MarcellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarvell peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marvell since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Marvell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marvell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.