Meaning not yet researched.
Markel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #832 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #832 in 1995; #3,111 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Markel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,111 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #832.
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Markel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #832 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 172 (1999).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Markel, making it the 3,111th most common boys’ name of the year, down 413 places from #2,698 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 49 boys named Markel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #832, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 172, in 1999. For comparison, it was #1,511 in 2015 and #4,007 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Markel in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 4,829 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,469 babies named Markel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 711 US boys were named Markel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcel (21,123 babies since 1880), Marcellus (9,608 babies since 1880), Marcello (6,618 babies since 1880) and Marcell (5,988 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marcal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marcal (38).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Markel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 39 | #3,111 |
| 2024 | — | — | 49 | #2,698 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,262 |
| 2022 | — | — | 62 | #2,310 |
| 2021 | — | — | 73 | #2,032 |
| 2020 | — | — | 81 | #1,841 |
| 2019 | — | — | 86 | #1,800 |
| 2018 | — | — | 85 | #1,803 |
| 2017 | — | — | 81 | #1,839 |
| 2016 | — | — | 92 | #1,704 |
| 2015 | — | — | 110 | #1,511 |
| 2014 | — | — | 95 | #1,637 |
| 2013 | — | — | 110 | #1,489 |
| 2012 | — | — | 107 | #1,510 |
| 2011 | — | — | 123 | #1,369 |
| 2010 | — | — | 126 | #1,355 |
| 2009 | — | — | 144 | #1,247 |
| 2008 | — | — | 147 | #1,201 |
| 2007 | — | — | 139 | #1,267 |
| 2006 | — | — | 138 | #1,221 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,586 | 169 | #1,006 |
| 2004 | — | — | 149 | #1,074 |
| 2003 | — | — | 136 | #1,123 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,795 | 118 | #1,189 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,676 | 164 | #946 |
| 2000 | — | — | 143 | #1,023 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,592 | 172 | #883 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,932 | 161 | #899 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,605 | 156 | #890 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,173 | 139 | #940 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,166 | 167 | #832 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,956 | 162 | #842 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,826 | 83 | #1,251 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,218 | 65 | #1,425 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,522 | 79 | #1,259 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,144 | 75 | #1,281 |
| 1989 | — | — | 54 | #1,529 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,081 | 28 | #2,230 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,745 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,037 |
| 1985 | — | — | 42 | #1,561 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,920 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,317 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,723 |
| 1981 | — | — | 32 | #1,794 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,684 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,287 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,444 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,524 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,233 | 17 | #2,568 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,989 | 11 | #3,359 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,478 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,150 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,275 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,514 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #3,003 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,504 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,563 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,568 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,154 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,186 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,886 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,613 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,205 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,797 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,761 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,169 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,586 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,388 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,657 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,007 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,030 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,998 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).