Markel
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #11,834 · #3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 167 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,708since 1948
Markel over time
Rank among boys' names. Markel has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,089 | 39 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,674 | 49 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,244 | 63 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,299 | 62 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,026 | 73 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,833 | 81 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,790 | 86 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,792 | 85 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,829 | 81 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,694 | 92 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,502 | 110 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,627 | 95 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,483 | 110 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,498 | 107 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,364 | 123 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,349 | 126 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,241 | 144 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,198 | 147 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,263 | 139 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,214 | 138 | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #1,005 | 169 |
| 2004 | — | #1,071 | 149 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,122 | 136 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,184 | 118 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #944 | 164 |
| 2000 | — | #1,021 | 143 | |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #880 | 172 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #898 | 161 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #886 | 156 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #935 | 139 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #832 | 167 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #840 | 162 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,248 | 83 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #1,417 | 65 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,254 | 79 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #1,278 | 75 |
| 1989 | — | #1,516 | 54 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | — | #1,734 | 38 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,007 | 29 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,544 | 42 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,885 | 29 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,272 | 22 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,700 | 34 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,766 | 32 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,464 | 15 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,148 | 15 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Markel! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Markel
- 415 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #3,089)
- 1,256 spots since 2020 (#1,833 → #3,089)
- 1,587 spots since 2015 (#1,502 → #3,089)
- Biggest jump: 408 spots in 1994 (#1,248 → #840)
- Biggest drop: 240 spots in 2002 (#944 → #1,184)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1995 at #832 (167 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1994–1999
- Highest: 1 in 11,164 boys born in 1999 were named Markel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,797 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #832 in 1995, was only 1 in 11,399 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.7% of all boys named Markel (1,447) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,679 |
| 1950s | 63 | #2,449 (1954) | #3,082 |
| 1960s | 89 | #2,148 (1961) | #2,807 |
| 1970s | 132 | #2,375 (1978) | #2,940 |
| 1980s | 326 | #1,516 (1989) | #1,924 |
| 1990s | 1,259 | #832 (1995) | #1,047 |
| 2000s | 1,447 | #944 (2001) | #1,126 |
| 2010s | 1,015 | #1,349 (2010) | #1,593 |
| 2020s | 367 | #1,833 (2020) | #2,361 |
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.
Markel in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 158,212 of them was named Markel, which outranked 54.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,465Zelina13
- #6,465Zoua13
- #6,465Zulay13
- #6,867Markel12
- #6,867Aaliyah12
- #6,867Abriel12
- #6,867Aerielle12
- #7,303Abeer11
- #7,303Adasha11
- #7,303Adelita11
Tied with 435 names at #6,867; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 27,387 of them was named Markel, which outranked 86.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,270Mustafa76
- #1,270Sydney76
- #1,270Trae76
- #1,278Markel75
- #1,278Brain75
- #1,278Jovon75
- #1,278Jullian75
- #1,287Alessandro74
- #1,287Destin74
- #1,287Donell74
Tied with 8 names at #1,278; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.