Marshell
The boy's name Marshell has been in the national records since 1913, with 1,561 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2007. About 970 Marshells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Marshell
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Marshell crossed from boys to girls in 1957, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 79% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 17 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,561
- Estimated living today
- 970
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 1,463rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 636 / 925
How old the living Marshells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,561 babies given the name since 1913, about 970 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 Marshell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marshell is most concentrated in Mississippi (51.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular boys’ names the year Marshell peaked:
Related names
Marshell 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.