How rare is the name Marshal?

3,855 people in the United States have the first name Marshal, about 1 in 78,348. It ranks #4,713 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MARSHAL

#4,713

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,855
About
1 in 78,348
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,855 people named Marshal, 77.9% reported their origin as White, 8.4% as Black and 5.1% as two or more races. 96.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Marshal peaked in 1999, when 95 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1999
Births that year
95
In 2025*
34 ▼64%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 5,559 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Marshal by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #1,583. The largest share of babies named Marshal, 20.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#1,58361
1890s#2,47635
1900s#2,69249
1910s#2,204275
1920s#2,225404
1930s#2,384315
1940s#2,474355
1950s#2,619425
1960s#3,281333
1970s#3,103467
1980s#3,131570
1990s#3,008834
2000s#4,298695
2010s#5,517519
2020s#6,895222
Before 19011.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2711.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.7%
Baby boom 1946–6413.3%
Generation X 1965–8012.5%
Millennials 1981–9619.3%
Generation Z 1997–1220.4%
2013 and later10.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Marshal is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marshal has been most common in Texas (4.9×), California (1.9×), and North Carolina (1.9×), and least common in Ohio (0.66×).

1,008 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Marshal

#4,711 Cloe · 3,856#4,711 Vita · 3,856#4,714 Adison · 3,854#4,714 Aly · 3,854

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Marshal, most common first.

#821 Marshall · 57,529#4,256 Marcial · 4,470#14,579 Marshell · 807#27,021 Marsel · 341#30,611 Marshel · 284#35,030 Marchel · 231#42,918 Marshayla · 166#45,674 Marcal · 148

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