Mardell
Feminine
Mardell is given to both — 2,170 girls and 94 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
There is a small family of American names ending in -dell — Ardell, Cordell, Mardell, Rondell — and they were built rather than borrowed. The ending is a real English word, but these names did not descend from it; somebody assembled them, and the ending was chosen because it sounded like the names that already existed.
How old is the name Mardell?
Mardell first appears in US birth records in 1896 — 129 years ago. The typical Mardell alive today was born around 1934, making them about 91 years old. About 800 people named Mardell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mardell most popular?
Mardell peaked in 1932, reaching #846 nationally. See the whole 1932 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mardell to Mardell
The story of Mardell
The front of the name could be three different things and there is no way to decide between them. It could be Mary, which supplies the opening of a great many American women's names. It could be the front of Marvin or Martin, cut at the same place those names are usually cut. It could be the Spanish and Latin word for the sea, which turns up in Marisol, Marina and Maribel and was available in the same decades. Each is plausible, none is provable, and the difference matters because the three would give the name three entirely different senses. The honest position is that the name has a front and nobody can say what it was before it got there.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending contributes no sense in a name of this kind, and the front element cannot be identified. Nothing translatable is available, and pages offering a reading have chosen one of several guesses without saying so.
How the name formed
- Mardell
- Mardelle
Pronouncing Mardell
mar-DELL
Two syllables with the weight at the back, which is where these names always put it. The front syllable is unstressed and reduces almost to nothing.
Nicknames for Mardell
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1896
- Most girls named
- 193267 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #846reached in 1932
- Change vs 1980
- 0.0%5 in 1981, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mardells among us
people named Mardell are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Mardell sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The stress at the back gives it a firm finish that few names of its length have.
- The spelling follows the sound exactly with nothing to explain.
- Della sits inside it as a warmer and quite separate short form.
- No meaning can be given, because the front of the name cannot be identified.
- Mardelle and Mardel both appear and the spelling gets queried.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mardells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Mardell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mardell in 2025?
- Mardell is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Mardell with classmates?
- Mardell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
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