Markel
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #11,834 · #3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 167 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,708since 1948
Markel over time
Rank among boys' names. Markel has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,089 | 39 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,674 | 49 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,244 | 63 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,299 | 62 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,026 | 73 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,833 | 81 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,790 | 86 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,792 | 85 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,829 | 81 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,694 | 92 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,502 | 110 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,627 | 95 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,483 | 110 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,498 | 107 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,364 | 123 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,349 | 126 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,241 | 144 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,198 | 147 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,263 | 139 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,214 | 138 | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #1,005 | 169 |
| 2004 | — | #1,071 | 149 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,122 | 136 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,184 | 118 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #944 | 164 |
| 2000 | — | #1,021 | 143 | |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #880 | 172 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #898 | 161 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #886 | 156 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #935 | 139 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #832 | 167 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #840 | 162 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,248 | 83 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #1,417 | 65 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,254 | 79 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #1,278 | 75 |
| 1989 | — | #1,516 | 54 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | — | #1,734 | 38 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,007 | 29 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,544 | 42 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,885 | 29 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,272 | 22 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,700 | 34 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,766 | 32 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,464 | 15 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,148 | 15 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Markel! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Markel is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#435 · 1 in 2,247
- Tennessee#457 · 1 in 2,901
- Georgia#520 · 1 in 3,220
- Louisiana#538 · 1 in 2,794
- Alabama#692 · 1 in 5,021
Best ever in a state: #201 in District of Columbia, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #435 | 7 | 1 in 2,247 |
| Tennessee | #457 | 13 | 1 in 2,901 |
| Georgia | #520 | 19 | 1 in 3,220 |
| Louisiana | #538 | 9 | 1 in 2,794 |
| Alabama | #692 | 5 | 1 in 5,021 |
| Missouri | #813 | 5 | 1 in 6,904 |
| Virginia | #840 | 6 | 1 in 7,162 |
| North Carolina | #885 | 7 | 1 in 7,959 |
| Florida | #932 | 12 | 1 in 8,376 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,119 | 5 | 1 in 12,774 |
| Texas | #1,223 | 13 | 1 in 14,554 |
| California | #2,024 | 7 | 1 in 36,310 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Markel
- 415 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #3,089)
- 1,256 spots since 2020 (#1,833 → #3,089)
- 1,587 spots since 2015 (#1,502 → #3,089)
- Biggest jump: 408 spots in 1994 (#1,248 → #840)
- Biggest drop: 240 spots in 2002 (#944 → #1,184)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1995 at #832 (167 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1994–1999
- Highest: 1 in 11,164 boys born in 1999 were named Markel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,797 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #832 in 1995, was only 1 in 11,399 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.7% of all boys named Markel (1,447) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,679 |
| 1950s | 63 | #2,449 (1954) | #3,082 |
| 1960s | 89 | #2,148 (1961) | #2,807 |
| 1970s | 132 | #2,375 (1978) | #2,940 |
| 1980s | 326 | #1,516 (1989) | #1,924 |
| 1990s | 1,259 | #832 (1995) | #1,047 |
| 2000s | 1,447 | #944 (2001) | #1,126 |
| 2010s | 1,015 | #1,349 (2010) | #1,593 |
| 2020s | 367 | #1,833 (2020) | #2,361 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Markel in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 13,879 of them was named Markel, which outranked 91.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,192Jonatan148
- #1,192Kannon148
- #1,192Stephon148
- #1,198Markel147
- #1,198Corban147
- #1,198Courtney147
- #1,198Dontae147
- #1,205Benito146
- #1,205Grayden146
- #1,205Mordechai146
Tied with 6 names at #1,198; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.