girls:
204 births since 1918
#5512 (4th percentile)
boys:
260 births since 1926
#4326 (6th percentile)
overall:
464 births since 1918
#7275 (6th percentile)
The name Marzell is the #7,275 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 464 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 6.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,326 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 260 births since 1926. For girls, it ranks #5,512 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 204 births since 1918.
Marzell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1926 for boys). Birth data for Marzell is available in 62 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 27 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 Marzell has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (56.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Marzell were boys. Interestingly, until around 1953, the name was more popular for girls (83.6% girls from 1918 to 1952), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (97.8% boys from 1953 to 2023).
For boys, Marzell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Marzell ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 58.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marzell reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #559) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1957.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marzell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Marzell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Marzell is pronounced as mahr-ZEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-zehl, at 29.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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