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Marcial

#4,973 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Martialis

Marcial has been given to 2,013 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #4,973 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Marcial, 2025

1 in 166,000

Marcial over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marcial: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Martialis

Spanish

What Marcial means

Marcial is a form of Martialis.

Origin, language, and formation

Marcial is used in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Martialis and Martial.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Marcial is pronounced /maɾˈθjal/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,013 boys were recorded with the name Marcial between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,577 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,169 in 2020 to #4,973 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,183 in 2015 to #4,973 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marcial?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,973
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marcial sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marcial. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcials were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marcial was born before 1985 — so the typical Marcial is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,756
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (336).

Is Marcial rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,138
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,196
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,210
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 1991 (45)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,577
1959

Spellings of Marcial

Marcial is not the most common spelling — Marcel is, with 51.1% against Marcial's 5.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marcial is used

Across 1910–2025, Marcial was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 76,681 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marcial has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marcial around the world

Where Marcial ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1903–2016
    #5,050
    in 2016

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Marcial

People whose public names include Marcial, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marcial in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marcial. Linked forms have their own page here.

MartialMarçal

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marcial by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,973
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,196
Best rank ever
#1,577
1959
Peak year
1991
45 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,013
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Marcial

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MarquanMarloweMartellMarquelMarvellMarkeithMarlowMarkellMarinoMarcellMartelMartinoMarshalMarquellMariusMarquezMarshawnMarqueseMarvelMarwanMarshonMarcianoMarlanMartial

Names with a curve like Marcial

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marcial, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LauroFilibertoRoqueLavellLavelleCelsoBlainArtemioPhilippeTinoFransiscoMaximino

Sibling names for Marcial

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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