Mardell
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mardell has been given to 2,264 babies in the U.S. since 1896. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1932, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Mardell, 1981
1 in 692,000
Mardell over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mardell?
Mardell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mardell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mardell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mardells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mardell was born before 1935 — so the typical Mardell is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 26.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 429
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (564).
Is Mardell 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1932 (67)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Mardell
Mardell is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 41.2% against Mardell's 1.4%.
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 Mardell is used
Across 1910–2025, Mardell was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 124,860 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Iowa1 in 25,000
- 2Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 3Nebraska1 in 33,333
- 4Wisconsin1 in 33,333
- 5Illinois1 in 50,000
- 6South Dakota1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Colorado1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Mardell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mardell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mardell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Mardell
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mardell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Mardell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.