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Marshel

Marshel reached its high-water mark in 1923 at number 1,753, and has been recorded 533 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1989. About 140 Marshels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Marshel boys named Marshel

By the numbers

Total US births
533
Estimated living today
140
Median age today
69
Peak year
1923
Best rank
1,753rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1911
Girls / boys
12 / 521

How old the living Marshels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 533 babies given the name since 1911, about 140 are alive — 25 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Marshel is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1923

The most popular boys’ names the year Marshel peaked:

All the names of 1923

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Marshel against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.