Marvie
Marvie was last recorded in 1974, when 5 babies were given it; 342 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marvie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marvie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marvie is “a diminutive of the male given name Marvin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marvie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,654, in 1974; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1930, the peak
Marvie peaked in 1930, when 19 babies were given it (7 girls, #3,914 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #9,654 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,110 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,210 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,872 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,728 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,613 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,307 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,448 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,111 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,894 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 6 | #5,089 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,758 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,919 | 5 | #4,070 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,427 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,579 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,079 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,799 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,990 | 5 | #3,884 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,493 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,125 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,096 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,684 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,524 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,284 | 8 | #2,779 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,523 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,740 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,643 | 5 | #3,973 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,855 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,914 | 12 | #2,398 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,814 | |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,644 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,349 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,768 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,820 | 6 | #4,141 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,893 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,610 | 8 | #3,285 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,129 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,413 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,898 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,468 | 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 Marvie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 342 Americans recorded as Marvie, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marvie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marvie, and how old are they?
An estimated 122 Americans named Marvie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 71 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 358 people named Marvie (275 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,890 babies since 1880, Marvie is the second most given (3.1% 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 Marvie
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 Marvie and names like it
- Compare Marvie and MarvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sMarvie peaked in 1930.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marvie since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Marvie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marvie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.