In 2025, 34 US boys were named Marshal, making it the 3,421st most common boys’ name of the year, down 104 places from #3,317 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 36 boys named Marshal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #631, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 95, in 1999. For comparison, it was #2,125 in 2015 and #1,228 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marshal in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 5,559 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 834 babies named Marshal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 399 US boys were named Marshal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marshall (98,604 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Martial are summarised on this page.