girls:
19 births since 1987
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1973
#3117 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1973
#6187 (20th percentile)
The name Marquell is the #6,187 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,559 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 20.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,117 (32.0% percentile) for all time with 1,540 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1987.
Marquell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Marquell is available in 48 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (48 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marquell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Marquell reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #708) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 37 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marquell ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 17.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marquell reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #842) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marquell".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marquell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Marquell is pronounced as MAHRK-wehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahrk-WEHL, at 31.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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