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Marquell

Gender
Boy
Say it
mar-KEL
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#10,690 for boys

Marquell is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

Where does Marquell come from?

Modern: spelling of Marquel; modern American coinage, perhaps from Marquis or Marcel

Meaning borrowed from Marquel.

Is Marquell a girl's or a boy's name?

Marquell is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Marquell in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 46% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Marquell, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 1996, with 75 boys. It first appears in the records in 1973.

2025 had fewer boys named Marquell than any year since 1980.

Half of all the boys named Marquell in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 103 boys in the US were given Marquell or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,455, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.

1973Busiest: 75 in 19962025
Marquell in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
202415#5,899
202312#6,892
202216#5,629
202118#5,105
202019#4,851
201919#4,947
201823#4,350
201718#5,107
201618#5,120
201528#3,774
201421#4,534
201325#3,962
201225#4,000
201131#3,433
201035#3,180
200939#2,990
200837#3,101
200732#3,377
200642#2,743
200531#3,237
200443#2,527
200331#3,040
200244#2,333
200175#1,587
200039#2,421
199947#2,020
199852#1,868
199757#1,703
199675#1,398
199570#1,412
199469#1,405
199352#1,675
199240#1,976
199145#1,762
199050#1,630
198944#1,728
198835#1,874
198731#1,970
198634#1,789
198531#1,865
198418#2,612
198311#3,629
198212#3,481
198110#3,856
19806#5,523
197913#3,167
19780–
19775#5,843
19767#4,416
19750–
19740–
19736#4,503

Names like Marquell

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Marquell

Names related to Marquell

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Marquell: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/marquell, updated 20 October 2026.