Meaning not yet researched.
Marquell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,411 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,411 in 1996; #11,515 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marquell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,515 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,411.
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Marquell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,411 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 75 (2001).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Marquell, making it the 11,515th most common boys’ name of the year, down 5,431 places from #6,084 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 15 boys named Marquell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,411, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 75, in 2001. For comparison, it was #3,840 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marquell in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 1,581 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 571 babies named Marquell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 164 US boys were named Marquell; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Markell (4,936 babies since 1880) and Marquel (2,960 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marquille 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: Marquille (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 Marquell 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 | — | — | 6 | #11,515 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #6,084 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,145 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,786 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,267 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #4,972 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #5,084 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,439 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,227 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,253 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,840 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,641 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,024 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,090 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,487 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,218 |
| 2009 | — | — | 39 | #3,025 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,145 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,418 |
| 2006 | — | — | 42 | #2,777 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,290 |
| 2004 | — | — | 43 | #2,558 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,086 |
| 2002 | — | — | 44 | #2,357 |
| 2001 | — | — | 75 | #1,596 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,460 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,048 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,510 | 52 | #1,891 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,716 |
| 1996 | — | — | 75 | #1,411 |
| 1995 | — | — | 70 | #1,427 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,169 | 69 | #1,414 |
| 1993 | — | — | 52 | #1,690 |
| 1992 | — | — | 40 | #1,991 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,785 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,650 |
| 1989 | — | — | 44 | #1,752 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,899 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,494 | 31 | #2,003 |
| 1986 | — | — | 34 | #1,823 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,900 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,668 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,780 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,615 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,038 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,973 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,288 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,470 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,742 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,877 |
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).