Marvel
About Marvel
Marvel, now a character name in The Hunger Games series, was a miracle name of yesterday, on the girls' Social Security list until 1941 and reaching a high of 487 at the turn of the last century, when Marva was also in style.
These days it does have something of a comic book feel, what with Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel, and despite the fact that Marvel is a male character in The Hunger Games, we can see some parents reviving this name for their own little marvel of a baby girl. That's what rocker Pete Wentz, dad of creatively-named sons Bronx Mowgli and Saint Laszlo, did recently when he named his daughter Marvel Jane.
Pronounced MAR-vul.
As of October 2026, Marvel ranked #6736 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #487 in 1899.
Editor's take: The name Marvel is a girl's name of English origin.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,855 | 29 | 16.2 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | #4,736 | 29 | 17 |
| 2019 | #4,232 | 34 | 20.3 |
| 2020 | #3,720 | 40 | 24.7 |
| 2021 | #4,792 | 28 | 17.1 |
| 2022 | #4,644 | 30 | 18.3 |
| 2023 | #4,947 | 27 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Marvel on lists
Famous Marvels
- Marvel Echo Star Helstrom
high school sweetheart of singer Bob Dylan; inspiration for the song "Girl from the North Country"
- Marvel Luciel Rea
American silent film actress
- Camaron Marvel "Cam" Ochs
American country music singer
- Marvel Whiteside "Jack" Parsons
American rocket scientist and occultist
- Marvel Keith "Marv" Harshman
American basketball coach
- Andrew Marvell
English poet
- Marvel Jane Wentz (b. 2018)
daughter of American musician Pete Wentz and Meagan Camper
- Marvel Crosson was a pioneer aviator
and the first female pilot to earn a commercial license in the Territory of Alaska.
- Marvel Cooke
pioneering African-American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist
Marvel in pop culture
- Marvel
comic book company
- Captain Marvel aka Carol Danvers
Marvel Comics character
- Wendy Marvel
character in anime "Fairy Tail"
- Marvel
male character in the Hunger Games series
- The surname may have arisen as a medieval nickname (often ironic) for someone regarded as a prodigy; alternatively
it may have meant "person from Merville" (the name of two places in northern France)
- Marvel
Ann,Hayley Mills troublesome cousin in the film The Trouble with Angels