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Marshall

#340 in the US in 2025

Where Marshall stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#340boys’ names · US 2025

Marshall was the 340th most registered boys' name in the United States in 2025, on 977 births.

peak 1947 · 1,269188019532025

Its moment was 1947, when 1,269 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#340US rank, 2025 (boys)
977US births in 2025
#131its best US rank, in 1886
1947peak year — 1,269 births
97,447US births since 1880
581NZ births since 1969
554E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Marshall's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Marshall was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Marshall in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.052104
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Marshall in the United States, 1880–2025
boysgirls

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Marshall in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Marshall has been registered 581 times since 1969, peaking in 2001 with 38 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.098196
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Marshall in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Marshall in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Marshall was registered 554 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2019 with 111 births. It ranked #497 for boys in 2025 on 77 births.

20200.01837
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Marshall in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1880#16878
1890#18373
1900#167126
1910#205125
1920#162850
1930#188741
1940#181809
1950#1941,082
1960#268892
1970#282750
1980#263825
1990#281927
2000#344796
2010#374770
2020#366851

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Marshall most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
Texas8,145
California5,645
North Carolina5,107
Illinois4,487
New York4,192
Virginia3,769
Pennsylvania3,578
Georgia3,437
Michigan3,267
Ohio3,221

Questions about Marshall

How popular is the name Marshall?

Marshall ranked #340 for boys in the United States in 2025, on 977 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Marshall most popular?

Marshall peaked in 1947, when 1,269 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Marshall rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all boys' births, Marshall has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1947, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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