Marshall

Where Marshall comes from

* As an English surname, from the noun marshal. * As a French surname, variant of Mercier. * As a German surname, variant of Marschall.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marshall
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #168 among boys — 78 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #131
    105 babies named Marshall — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Marshall 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.