Marvis
Recorded 1914–2018 · United States
Marvis was most popular in 1924, when 58 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,849 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,468 people named Marvis.
Marvis over time
How old is the name Marvis?
Marvis first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 100 of the 112 years since. It was last recorded in 2018.
How many people are named Marvis?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,468 American births named Marvis between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,338 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Marvis in 2025?
Marvis was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Marvis getting more or less popular?
Marvis is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Marvis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Marvis is a unisex name — 55.4% of the 2,468 Americans given it were girls and 44.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 1969 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Marvis?
Roughly 1,338 Americans named Marvis are alive today — 54% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 63 years old, and half are between 45 and 75. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org