Marvel
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Marvel
Marvel, once a feminine miracle name, has been resurrected as a unisex word name with a dose of superhero style.
Marvel for girls#6736 US
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 #5140 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1421 in 1917.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,212 | 24 | #4,855 | 29 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #4,879 | 20 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,739 | 29 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | #4,736 | 29 |
| 2019 | #3,536 | 32 | #4,232 | 34 |
| 2020 | #4,368 | 23 | #3,720 | 40 |
| 2021 | #3,786 | 29 | #4,792 | 28 |
| 2022 | #3,738 | 30 | #4,644 | 30 |
| 2023 | #3,954 | 28 | #4,947 | 27 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
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- Marvel Echo Star HelstromGirl
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- Marvel Luciel ReaGirl
American silent film actress
- Camaron Marvel "Cam" OchsGirl
American country music singer
- Marvel Whiteside "Jack" ParsonsGirl
American rocket scientist and occultist
- Marvel Keith "Marv" HarshmanGirl
American basketball coach
- Andrew MarvellGirl
English poet
- Marvel Jane Wentz (b. 2018)Girl
daughter of American musician Pete Wentz and Meagan Camper
- Marvel Crosson was a pioneer aviatorGirl
and the first female pilot to earn a commercial license in the Territory of Alaska.
- Marvel CookeGirl
pioneering African-American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist
Marvel in pop culture
- MarvelGirl
comic book company
- Captain Marvel aka Carol DanversGirl
Marvel Comics character
- Wendy MarvelGirl
character in anime "Fairy Tail"
- MarvelGirl
male character in the Hunger Games series
- The surname may have arisen as a medieval nickname (often ironic) for someone regarded as a prodigy; alternativelyGirl
it may have meant "person from Merville" (the name of two places in northern France)
- MarvelGirl
Ann,Hayley Mills troublesome cousin in the film The Trouble with Angels