Markel
Markel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 832nd, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1999172 births
- Best rank
- #832in 1995
- Since 1948
- 4,791people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,670 boys have been named Markel in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 172 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 121 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Markel was the 883rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Markel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Markellpeak 2005
- Quranpeak 1997
- Nikolaspeak 2004
- Mckaypeak 1995
- Destinpeak 2001
- Cameronpeak 2000
- Keionpeak 1996
- Erykpeak 2001
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.