Marvell
Recorded 1912–2025 · United States
Marvell was most popular in 2007, when 33 American babies were given the name — ranking #7,601 that year. In 2025 it ranked #16,070, with 10 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,480 people named Marvell.
Marvell over time
How old is the name Marvell?
Marvell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 108 of the 114 years since.
How many people are named Marvell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,480 American births named Marvell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,124 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Marvell in 2025?
10 American babies were named Marvell in 2025, ranking #16,070 that year.
Is Marvell getting more or less popular?
Marvell is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 9 births a year across 2021–2025 against 15 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Marvell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Marvell is a unisex name — 21.8% of the 1,480 Americans given it were girls and 78.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Marvell?
Roughly 1,124 Americans named Marvell are alive today — 76% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 36 years old, and half are between 20 and 54. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Marvell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org