Marvis
Marvis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192443 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 2,468people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,366 girls have been named Marvis in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 22%.
Marvis is used for both sexes: 45% of its bearers are boys (1,102), most of them born around 1983.
By decade
In 1924, its biggest year
Marvis was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Marvis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernellpeak 1924
- Verdellpeak 1932
- Glennispeak 1947
- Nadenepeak 1930
- Lorrainepeak 1928
- Doreathapeak 1928
- Verlinepeak 1933
- Lorispeak 1935
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.