Marvel
Marvel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 487th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1929171 births
- Best rank
- #487in 1899
- Since 1889
- 6,533people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,181 girls have been named Marvel in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 171 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Marvel is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are boys (1,352), most of them born around 2019.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marvel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9 | |
| 1890s | 208 | |
| 1900s | 373 | |
| 1910s | 962 | |
| 1920s | 1,372 | |
| 1930s | 916 | |
| 1940s | 498 | |
| 1950s | 309 | |
| 1960s | 141 | |
| 1970s | 58 | |
| 1980s | 19 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 166 | |
| 2020s | 140 |
In 1929, its biggest year
Marvel was the 520th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1929 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Marvel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Freedapeak 1924
- Buelahpeak 1927
- Delsiepeak 1920
- Allinepeak 1921
- Ruthpeak 1920
- Corenepeak 1922
- Leomapeak 1920
- Marionpeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.