Marvella
Marvella was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,606 among girls’ names; 1,535 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marvella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marvella?
#10,606 among girls’ names, 2025
Marvella rose from #11,525 in 2015 to #10,606 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 5.6 per million.
35 babies in 1927, the peak
Marvella peaked in 1927, when 35 girls were given it, #1,378 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,606 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,901 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,326 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,889 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,872 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,591 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,604 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,420 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,605 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,858 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,525 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,343 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,120 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,169 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,442 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,842 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,163 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,501 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,291 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,075 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,116 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,583 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,862 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,788 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,512 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,991 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,297 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,320 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,491 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,891 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,325 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,477 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,461 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,171 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,583 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,601 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,590 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,154 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,767 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,295 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,221 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,111 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,810 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,809 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,315 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,581 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,221 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,721 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,664 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,976 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,023 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,267 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,351 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,509 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,792 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,750 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,784 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,550 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,062 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,749 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,325 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,793 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,899 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,270 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,756 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,397 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,473 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,094 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,737 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,904 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,843 | 15.9 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,504 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,067 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,304 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,167 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,653 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,931 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,242 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,666 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,177 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,189 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,714 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,473 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,969 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,385 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,015 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,552 | 23.4 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,446 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,734 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,744 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,158 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,378 | 29.4 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,754 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,679 | 21.4 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,968 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,809 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,939 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,458 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,262 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,597 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,128 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,266 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,220 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,046 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,787 | 10.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,720 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,651 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marvella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marvella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marvella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marvella, and how old are they?
An estimated 969 Americans named Marvella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 21 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,058 people named Marvella (1,056 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 978 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,052 babies since 1880, Marvella is the most given (75% 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 Marvella
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 Marvella and names like it
- Compare Marvella and MarvelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarvella peaked in 1927.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marvella since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Marvella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marvella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.