girls:
1.5k births since 1910
#4238 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1910
#6240 (19th percentile)
The name Marvella is the #6,240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,505 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 19.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,238 (25.8% percentile) for all time with 1,505 births since 1910.
Marvella first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for girls in 1910). Birth data for Marvella is available in 105 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Marvella reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #573) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marvella ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 26.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marvella".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Marvella. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.0% confident that Marvella is pronounced as mahr-VEH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-VEH-luh, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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