Meaning not yet researched.
Markell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #833 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #833 in 1994; #3,065 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Markell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,065 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #833.
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Markell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #833 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 176 (2005).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Markell, making it the 3,065th most common boys’ name of the year, down 571 places from #2,494 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 55 boys named Markell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #833, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 176, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,748 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Markell in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 8 babies. In all, 4,936 US babies have been given the name, 4.4% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,530 babies named Markell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 737 US boys were named Markell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Markel (4,829 babies since 1880) and Marquell (1,581 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Markelle, Markale and Markail are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Markelle (357), Markale (160), Markail (62), Markal (44), Markael (43), Markeil (35), Markeal (34), Markiel (28), Marqel (23), Markele (7), Marckel (5), Marqell (5).
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 Markell 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 | — | — | 40 | #3,065 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,494 |
| 2023 | — | — | 69 | #2,119 |
| 2022 | — | — | 56 | #2,485 |
| 2021 | — | — | 75 | #1,992 |
| 2020 | — | — | 88 | #1,757 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,119 |
| 2018 | — | — | 83 | #1,830 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,676 |
| 2016 | — | — | 108 | #1,546 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,748 |
| 2014 | — | — | 107 | #1,510 |
| 2013 | — | — | 104 | #1,539 |
| 2012 | — | — | 109 | #1,486 |
| 2011 | — | — | 132 | #1,301 |
| 2010 | — | — | 149 | #1,203 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,162 | 169 | #1,098 |
| 2008 | — | — | 158 | #1,152 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,467 | 152 | #1,169 |
| 2006 | — | — | 160 | #1,100 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,501 | 176 | #986 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,830 | 139 | #1,138 |
| 2003 | — | — | 126 | #1,183 |
| 2002 | — | — | 125 | #1,146 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,838 | 146 | #1,018 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,630 | 135 | #1,064 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,780 | 151 | #960 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,025 | 159 | #906 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,121 | 137 | #965 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,991 | 112 | #1,085 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,598 | 165 | #840 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,957 | 164 | #833 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,195 | 91 | #1,176 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,494 | 84 | #1,232 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,523 | 90 | #1,168 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,336 | 77 | #1,266 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,766 | 62 | #1,395 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,133 | 48 | #1,540 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,461 | 43 | #1,627 |
| 1986 | — | — | 50 | #1,412 |
| 1985 | — | — | 39 | #1,634 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,482 | 33 | #1,751 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,993 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,248 | 21 | #2,392 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,246 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,685 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,439 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,340 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,657 | 27 | #1,883 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,301 |
| 1975 | — | — | 22 | #2,104 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,372 | 15 | #2,631 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,433 | 18 | #2,287 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,858 | 16 | #2,385 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,762 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,141 | 11 | #3,004 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,234 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,978 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,820 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,204 |
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).