Marshall
Top 1000
About Marshall
Earthy but sophisticated, Marshall is an occupational surname, and despite the sounds, it isn't military or martial in any way. Rather, it stems from the Norman French for someone caring for horses.
It's been used as a first name since the 19th-century and has been in the Top 1000 every year since it started to publish its data in 1880. It typically ranks between the 200-400 mark, making it a totally familiar choice, used throughout history but never becoming over saturated.
Marshall is the real name of rapper Eminem, and it got some attention during the heyday of communications maven Marshall McLuhan. Peyton Manning named his son Marshall, and Jason Segel played the character of Marshall Eriksen on How I Met Your Mother.
With cool nicknames Mars and Marsh, Mars was given to around 800 boys in the US in a recent year, playing it in the Top 400, while in England and Wales it ranked at #613.
Pronounced MAR-shul.
As of October 2026, Marshall ranked #340 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #132 in 1886, Nameberry popularity #715.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #319 | 1,086 | 565.4 |
| 2015 | #319 | 1,102 | 574.9 |
| 2016 | #345 | 1,010 | 532.2 |
| 2017 | #357 | 938 | 506.8 |
| 2018 | #350 | 943 | 519.2 |
| 2019 | #366 | 873 | 486.6 |
| 2020 | #366 | 851 | 493 |
| 2021 | #379 | 858 | 490.4 |
| 2022 | #384 | 840 | 481.1 |
| 2023 | #388 | 819 | 478.8 |
| 2024 | #391 | 830 | 481.7 |
| 2025 | #340 | 977 | 572 |
World rankings
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Marshall on lists
Famous Marshalls
- Marshall Scot Allman
American actor
- Marshall Bruce Mathers III aka Eminem
American rapper
- (Archibald) Marshall Bell
American actor
- Marshall Howard Crenshaw
American pop musician
- Marshall William Faulk
American football player
- Marshall Edward Newhouse
American football player
- (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
Canadian professor of media theory
- Marshall Holman
American ten,pin bowler
- Marshall Lancaster
English actor
- Marshall Kirk McKusick
American scientist
- Marshall Bruce Perron
Australian politician
- Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth
American physicist
- Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor
American track cyclist
- Marshall Williams Manning (b. 2011)
son of former American football quarterback Peyton Manning
- Marshall Patrick Kennedy (b. 2018)
son of American politician and mental health advocate Patrick Kennedy
- James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- John Marshall
extremely influential American chief justice of the Supreme Court
- George Marshall
famed American military leader in WWII
- Marshall Lloyd Bush Rossi
daughter of Marvin Bush, granddaughter of Barbara and George H. W. Bush
Marshall in pop culture
- Marshall Eriksen
character on TV's "How I Met Your Mother"
- Marshall Lee Abadeer
gender,swapped version of Marceline on "Adventure Time"
- Marshall Flinkman
character on TV's Alias
- Marshall Mann
character on the TV series "In Plain Sight"
- Marshall Islands
country in the central Pacific
- Marshall University; university named after John Marshall in Huntington
WV
- Marshall's
department store
- Also a girl's name
like Marshall Bush.