girls:
5.2k births since 1889
#2343 (59th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1907
#3283 (28th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1889
#3351 (57th percentile)
The name Marvel is the #3,351 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,502 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 56.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,343 (59.0% percentile) for all time with 5,166 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #3,283 (28.4% percentile) for all time with 1,336 births since 1907.
Marvel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1907 for boys). Birth data for Marvel is available in 134 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (111 years for boys and 105 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 Marvel has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 49.1% of babies named Marvel were girls.
For girls, Marvel reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 26.9% percentile (ranked #433) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 150 births per million (ranked 9.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marvel ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 10.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marvel reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #497) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Marvel ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 48.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marvel".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Marvel.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Marvel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Marvel.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Marvel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Marvel is pronounced as MAHR-vuhl, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Marvel? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Marvel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Marvel, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R V AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker