girls:
248 births since 1968
#5468 (4th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1970
#2435 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1968
#5005 (35th percentile)
The name Marquel is the #5,005 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,933 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 35.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,435 (46.9% percentile) for all time with 2,685 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,468 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 248 births since 1968.
Marquel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1970 for boys).
The name Marquel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.5% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1974, the name was more popular for girls (59.3% girls from 1968 to 1973), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (92.6% boys from 1974 to 2023).
For boys, Marquel reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 14.5% percentile (ranked #684) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 60 births per million (ranked 14.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marquel ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 13.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marquel reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #836) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marquel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Marquel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.9% confident that Marquel is pronounced as mahr-KEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahrk-WEHL, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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