Marshall

What Marshall means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Marshall yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #319 in 2015 to #340 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marshall?

US: Steady: #319 in 2015, #340 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #299 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1908, when 160 boys got the name (#147 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,748 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,532 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (4.59 per 1,000 boys), ME (2.34 per 1,000 boys), SC (1.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Marshall is #340 in the US and #497 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Marshall were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marshal34 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Marshal

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Marshall

Boys

• Kendrick#535Editor’s note Down from #366 in 2015 to #535 in 2025 in the US
• Calvin#132“bald”^*
• Clark#377“clergyman; learned man”^*
• Desmond#376Editor’s note Down from #351 in 2015 to #376 in 2025 in the US
• Dexter#692“right (handed)”^*
• Dean#125“valley”^*

For a sister

• Blake#295“black”^*
• Kori#978Form of Corey, possibly meaning “troop, host, company”^*
• Collins#241“descendant of Coileán”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Darcy#857“to burn, consume”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Marshall’s. Rank is US 2025.