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 | |
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| 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 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 162,341 of them was named Markel, which outranked 51.7% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,097Yu12
- #7,097Zuleica12
- #7,097Zuleyka12
- #7,604Markel11
- #7,604Abeni11
- #7,604Abreanna11
- #7,604Adanna11
- #8,122Aalyah10
- #8,122Aamina10
- #8,122Abbe10
Tied with 517 names at #7,604; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 11,926 of them was named Markel, which outranked 91.8% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).