Meaning and history
From an English surname meaning a person who was a marshal, Marshall ultimately comes from Latin mariscalcus, which itself derives from Germanic roots related to Old High German marah “horse” and scalc “servant.” A well-known bearer is the American rapper Marshall Mathers (born 1972), better known as Eminem.
20062006: 690 births, rank #417
2007: 712 births, rank #409
2008: 774 births, rank #389
2009: 735 births, rank #402
2010: 770 births, rank #374
20112011: 894 births, rank #338
2012: 888 births, rank #347
2013: 995 births, rank #328
2014: 1,087 births, rank #319
2015: 1,102 births, rank #319
20162016: 1,011 births, rank #344
2017: 938 births, rank #357
2018: 944 births, rank #349
2019: 873 births, rank #366
2020: 851 births, rank #366
20212021: 860 births, rank #378
2022: 840 births, rank #384
2023: 821 births, rank #388
2024: 834 births, rank #391
20252025: 977 births, rank #340
Marshall rose from #391 to #340 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1947, with 1,269 births.