Marvis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Marvis

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,366 babies named Marvis between 1914 and 1978, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marvis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Marvis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,102 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marvis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 304 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Marvis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Hawaii. In total, SSA state-level files list Marvis in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marvis 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 1,366 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.