Marshal

Where Marshal comes from

From marshal.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marshal
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #595
    9 babies named Marshal — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Marshal turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.