Marshall

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Marshall: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Marshall: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #165 in 2003, and it stood at #613 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#165highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#704
1997	#567
1998	#689
1999	#507
2000	#314
2001	#187
2002	#217
2003	#165
2004	#197
2005	#231
2006	#242
2007	#305
2008	#390
2009	#408
2010	#369
2011	#305
2012	#336
2013	#329
2014	#269
2015	#299
2016	#322
2017	#321
2018	#360
2019	#388
2020	#436
2021	#471
2022	#577
2023	#598
2024	#613

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #613 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #704 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #165 among boys in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #613 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Marshall appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,333 births with the name.

Marshall across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Marshall's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#704 (1996)	#165 (2003)	#613 (2024)	29 of 29	3,333 (1996–2024)	242 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#280 (2001)	#263 (2003)	#414 (2022)	10 of 22	37 (2001–2022)	5 (2016)

Marshall by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Marshall in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	116	4 of 10	29
2000sbusiest	1,466	10 of 10	147
2010s	1,385	10 of 10	139
2020s	366	5 of 10	73

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 147 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births rose by 97, from 145 to 242.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Marshall appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #165 in England and Wales in 2003.

Marshall's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#613	62	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#598	61	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#577	65	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#471	86	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#436	92	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#388	111	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#360	125	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#321	152	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#322	146	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#299	155	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#269	180	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#329	127	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#336	132	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#305	146	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#369	111	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#408	94	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#390	96	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#305	123	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#242	156	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#231	153	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#197	191	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#165	242	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#217	145	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#187	181	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#314	85	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#507	39	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#689	24	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#567	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#704	22	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#318	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#320	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#343	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#263	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#280	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #165, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 242 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Marte · #6, 79y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elli · #165, 30y
Jaden · #164, 30y
Che · #167, 29y
Eesa · #167, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayesha · #165, 33y
Caden · #165, 28y
Colby · #165, 30y
Elli · #165, 30y

Marshall was ranked #165 in England and Wales · Boys in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Marshall and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marshall without appearing here.

Marshall moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 1998 they stood at #689 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #507 and #1082.
Courtney Compare
In 1998 they stood at #689 and #554 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #507 and #973.
Derek Compare
In 1998 they stood at #689 and #544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #507 and #906.
Garry Compare
In 1996 they stood at #704 and #573 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #567 and #914.

Moved ahead of Marshall

Tadhg Compare
In 2022 they stood at #577 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #598 and #419.
Brodie Compare
In 2006 they stood at #263 and #299 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #357 and #209.
Mathias Compare
In 2021 they stood at #471 and #496 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #577 and #453.
Cillian Compare
In 2017 they stood at #321 and #324 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #360 and #255.

Moved the opposite way to Marshall

Shannon Compare
Between 1996 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Marshall went from #704 to #388 while Shannon went from #1168 to #4702.
Blake Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Marshall went from #280 to #414 while Blake went from #207 to #96.
Caleb Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Marshall went from #280 to #414 while Caleb went from #120 to #23.
Charlie Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Marshall went from #280 to #414 while Charlie went from #131 to #5.

Moved the same way as Marshall

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Marshall went from #217 to #613 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.
Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Marshall went from #280 to #414 and Aaron from #16 to #131.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Marshall went from #280 to #414 and Adam from #3 to #31.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Marshall went from #280 to #414 and Alan from #151 to #352.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #165 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marshall

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marshall across 2 official records

Marshall by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Marshall across 2 official records

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Marshall and the names beside it

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