Markel
The boy's name Markel has been in the national records since 1948, with 4,829 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,089th. About 4,700 Markels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Markel boys named Markel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,829
- Estimated living today
- 4,700
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 880th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,089th
- First recorded
- 1948
- Girls / boys
- 121 / 4,708
How old the living Markels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,829 babies given the name since 1948, about 4,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Markels
- Markel Susaeta (born 1987)Spanish association football player
- Markel Bergara (born 1986)Spanish footballer
- Markel Fernández (born 2003)Spanish athlete
- Markel Irizar (born 1980)road bicycle racer
- Markel Brown (born 1992)American basketball player
- Markel Etxeberria (born 1995)Spanish association football player
People named Markel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Markel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Markel is most concentrated in Georgia (4.2×), Mississippi (4.2×), Florida (3.1×), Louisiana (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular boys’ names the year Markel peaked:
Markel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Markel | 28 | 3,451st |
| France boys | Markel | 10 | 4,241st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Markel: rank by region
In 2024, Markel was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 10 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comunidad Foral de Navarra | Markel | 9 | 26 |
| País Vasco | Markel | 2 | 118 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Markel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,822 men called Markel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bizkaia | Markel | 3,401 | 6.020 | 38 |
| Gipuzkoa | Markel | 2,070 | 5.776 | 35 |
| Araba/Álava | Markel | 795 | 4.720 | 54 |
| Navarra | Markel | 646 | 1.907 | 100 |
| Rioja, La | Markel | 71 | 0.441 | 245 |
| Burgos | Markel | 60 | 0.331 | 284 |
Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Markel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.