Meaning not yet researched.
Marvel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,421 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,421 in 1917; #5,140 in 2025. About 53% of babies named Marvel in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,140 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #1,421.
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Marvel: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,421 in 1917 · most boys in one year: 32 (2019).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Marvel, making it the 5,140th most common boys’ name of the year, up 672 places from #5,812 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 16 boys named Marvel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,421, reached in 1917. The most boys given the name in a single year was 32, in 2019. For comparison, it was #5,438 in 2015 and #3,559 in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Marvel, making it the 6,736th most common girls’ name of the year, up 727 places from #7,463 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 15 girls named Marvel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #487, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 171, in 1929. For comparison, it was #8,284 in 2015 and #1,541 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marvel in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 9 babies. In all, 6,569 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,532 babies named Marvel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 244 US boys were named Marvel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Marvell, Marvelle and Marvyl 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marvell (1,480), Marvelle (517), Marvyl (60), Marvil (5), Marval (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 Marvel 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 | 17 | #6,736 | 19 | #5,140 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,463 | 16 | #5,812 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,949 | 28 | #3,957 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,644 | 30 | #3,739 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,795 | 29 | #3,787 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,722 | 23 | #4,370 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,233 | 32 | #3,538 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,736 | 18 | #5,239 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,963 | 29 | #3,740 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,331 | 20 | #4,881 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,284 | 17 | #5,438 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,856 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,006 | 17 | #5,312 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,011 | 13 | #6,534 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,462 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,367 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,094 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,447 | 11 | #7,540 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,427 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,340 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,939 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,021 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,059 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,948 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,084 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,182 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,615 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,703 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,937 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,791 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,005 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,548 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,156 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,255 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,318 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,381 | 22 | #2,925 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,020 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,944 | 12 | #4,076 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,873 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,077 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,908 | 12 | #3,722 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,359 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,965 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,053 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,383 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,457 | 10 | #4,033 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,490 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,193 | 10 | #3,756 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,617 | 7 | #4,935 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,265 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,638 | 11 | #3,362 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,655 | 10 | #3,484 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,121 | 10 | #3,358 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,328 | 11 | #3,087 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,964 | 16 | #2,434 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,166 | 13 | #2,698 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,094 | 9 | #3,238 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,016 | 9 | #3,022 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,028 | 16 | #2,007 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,870 | 12 | #2,409 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,460 | 8 | #3,191 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,831 | 5 | #4,421 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,246 | 10 | #2,786 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,143 | 10 | #2,831 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,843 | 5 | #4,401 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,562 | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,826 | 7 | #3,468 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,098 | 6 | #3,825 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,593 | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,788 | 8 | #3,120 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,343 | 8 | #3,095 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,693 | 8 | #3,066 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,733 | 5 | #4,085 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,630 | 10 | #2,595 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,541 | 6 | #3,559 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,499 | 9 | #2,738 |
| 1948 | 40 | #1,469 | 13 | #2,184 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,477 | 5 | #4,070 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,203 | 11 | #2,208 |
| 1944 | 48 | #1,136 | 12 | #2,151 |
| 1943 | 58 | #1,057 | 8 | #2,876 |
| 1942 | 61 | #1,002 | 11 | #2,345 |
| 1941 | 63 | #930 | — | — |
| 1940 | 63 | #910 | 6 | #3,342 |
| 1939 | 59 | #920 | 7 | #3,020 |
| 1938 | 84 | #760 | 13 | #2,061 |
| 1937 | 67 | #848 | 7 | #3,078 |
| 1936 | 73 | #793 | 8 | #2,779 |
| 1935 | 90 | #711 | 8 | #2,861 |
| 1934 | 108 | #645 | 8 | #2,873 |
| 1933 | 90 | #686 | 7 | #3,186 |
| 1932 | 103 | #664 | 9 | #2,773 |
| 1931 | 105 | #648 | 14 | #2,067 |
| 1930 | 137 | #588 | 11 | #2,552 |
| 1929 | 171 | #520 | 10 | #2,701 |
| 1928 | 101 | #700 | 12 | #2,479 |
| 1927 | 134 | #616 | 17 | #2,005 |
| 1926 | 138 | #606 | 13 | #2,374 |
| 1925 | 108 | #710 | 18 | #1,912 |
| 1924 | 152 | #607 | 19 | #1,875 |
| 1923 | 153 | #583 | 25 | #1,531 |
| 1922 | 130 | #644 | 17 | #2,004 |
| 1921 | 136 | #633 | 12 | #2,580 |
| 1920 | 149 | #589 | 17 | #2,022 |
| 1919 | 128 | #621 | 14 | #2,222 |
| 1918 | 150 | #586 | 11 | #2,645 |
| 1917 | 127 | #609 | 25 | #1,421 |
| 1916 | 129 | #591 | 10 | #2,668 |
| 1915 | 135 | #553 | 11 | #2,397 |
| 1914 | 74 | #679 | 10 | #2,213 |
| 1913 | 64 | #649 | 9 | #2,038 |
| 1912 | 63 | #627 | 6 | #2,456 |
| 1911 | 43 | #663 | 7 | #1,485 |
| 1910 | 49 | #599 | — | — |
| 1909 | 43 | #589 | — | — |
| 1908 | 46 | #552 | — | — |
| 1907 | 40 | #583 | 5 | #1,473 |
| 1906 | 43 | #536 | — | — |
| 1905 | 28 | #677 | — | — |
| 1904 | 33 | #596 | — | — |
| 1903 | 29 | #622 | — | — |
| 1902 | 34 | #566 | — | — |
| 1901 | 35 | #519 | — | — |
| 1900 | 42 | #522 | — | — |
| 1899 | 37 | #487 | — | — |
| 1898 | 35 | #537 | — | — |
| 1897 | 25 | #624 | — | — |
| 1896 | 27 | #606 | — | — |
| 1895 | 20 | #718 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #886 | — | — |
| 1893 | 19 | #679 | — | — |
| 1892 | 17 | #716 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #716 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #937 | — | — |
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).