Markell
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #17,294 · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to boys 95.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 164 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,717since 1962
Markell over time
Rank among boys' names. Markell 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,036 | 40 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,476 | 55 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,113 | 69 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,468 | 56 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,982 | 75 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,743 | 88 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,110 | 68 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,823 | 83 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,661 | 95 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,539 | 108 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,740 | 88 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,506 | 107 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,537 | 104 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,478 | 109 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,296 | 132 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,200 | 149 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,095 | 169 |
| 2008 | — | #1,146 | 158 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,162 | 152 |
| 2006 | — | #1,097 | 160 | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #986 | 176 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,132 | 139 |
| 2003 | — | #1,181 | 126 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,139 | 125 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,017 | 146 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #1,061 | 135 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #956 | 151 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #906 | 159 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #962 | 137 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #1,079 | 112 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #837 | 165 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #831 | 164 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,168 | 91 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,228 | 84 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #1,259 | 77 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #1,392 | 62 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | — | #1,403 | 50 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,614 | 39 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #1,723 | 33 |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,279 | 20 | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,065 | 22 | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | — | #2,686 | 13 | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Markell! It came in at #3,041, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Markell
- 560 spots since 2024 (#2,476 → #3,036)
- 1,293 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #3,036)
- 1,296 spots since 2015 (#1,740 → #3,036)
- Biggest jump: 337 spots in 1994 (#1,168 → #831)
- Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1996 (#837 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1994 at #831 (164 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1997–1999
- Highest: 1 in 11,348 boys born in 2005 were named Markell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #831 in 1994, was only 1 in 11,781 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.5% of all boys named Markell (1,486) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 29 | #3,041 (1962) | #3,334 |
| 1970s | 182 | #1,858 (1977) | #2,349 |
| 1980s | 364 | #1,392 (1989) | #1,839 |
| 1990s | 1,230 | #831 (1994) | #1,039 |
| 2000s | 1,486 | #986 (2005) | #1,102 |
| 2010s | 1,043 | #1,200 (2010) | #1,589 |
| 2020s | 383 | #1,743 (2020) | #2,303 |
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.
Markell in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 375,001 of them was named Markell, which outranked 15.0% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 22,448 of them was named Markell, which outranked 88.0% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,155Kale91
- #1,155Taj91
- #1,155Taurean91
- #1,162Markell90
- #1,162Arnoldo90
- #1,162Blaise90
- #1,162Donny90
- #1,170Adriel89
- #1,170Alek89
- #1,170Brennon89
Tied with 7 names at #1,162; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.