Markell
- Last seen for girls in 2009 at #17,294
- #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
- Given to boys 95.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 164 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,717since 1962
Markell over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Markell has never cracked the top 800 here.
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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 | — | #3,036 | 40 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,476 | 55 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,113 | 69 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,468 | 56 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,982 | 75 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,743 | 88 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,110 | 68 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,823 | 83 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,661 | 95 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,539 | 108 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,740 | 88 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,506 | 107 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,537 | 104 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,478 | 109 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,296 | 132 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,200 | 149 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,095 | 169 |
| 2008 | — | #1,146 | 158 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,162 | 152 |
| 2006 | — | #1,097 | 160 | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #986 | 176 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,132 | 139 |
| 2003 | — | #1,181 | 126 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,139 | 125 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,017 | 146 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #1,061 | 135 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #956 | 151 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #906 | 159 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #962 | 137 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #1,079 | 112 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #837 | 165 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #831 | 164 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,168 | 91 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,228 | 84 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #1,259 | 77 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #1,392 | 62 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | — | #1,403 | 50 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,614 | 39 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,279 | 20 | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,065 | 22 | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | — | #2,686 | 13 | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five boys were named Markell! It came in at #3,041, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Markell is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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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.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,293 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #3,036)
- Biggest jump: 337 spots in 1994
- Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1996
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1994 at #831 (164 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 25 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1997–1999
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,348
- Highest: 1 in 11,348 boys born in 2005 were named Markell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #831 in 1994, was only 1 in 11,781 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 31.5% of all boys named Markell (1,486) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 29 | #3,041 (1962) | #3,334 |
| 1970s | 182 | #1,858 (1977) | #2,349 |
| 1980s | 364 | #1,392 (1989) | #1,839 |
| 1990s | 1,230 | #831 (1994) | #1,039 |
| 2000s | 1,486 | #986 (2005) | #1,102 |
| 2010s | 1,043 | #1,200 (2010) | #1,589 |
| 2020s | 383 | #1,743 (2020) | #2,303 |
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.
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