Marvell
#8,017 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marvell has been given to 1,480 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #8,017 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% boys, 22% girls all-time.
Babies named Marvell, 2025
1 in 332,000
Marvell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Marvell over time
In 2025, Marvell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Marvell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,017
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marvell sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marvell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marvells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marvell was born before 1990 — so the typical Marvell is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 17.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,095
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (204).
Is Marvell 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
- +720
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −145
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,084
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.3%
- Peak was 2007 (33)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Marvell
Marvell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 38.9% against Marvell's 0.28%.
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 Marvell is used
Across 1910–2025, Marvell was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 120,656 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 100,000
- 2Mississippi1 in —
- 3Tennessee1 in —
- 4Wisconsin1 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. Marvell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marvell around the world
Where Marvell 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.
- England & Wales2024–2024#5,120in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Marvell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Marvell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marvell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.