Marvelle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Marvelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 442 babies named Marvelle between 1908 and 2019, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marvelle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Marvelle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 75 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marvelle performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Marvelle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Marvelle in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marvelle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 442 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.