as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, derived from a Norman French occupational term that originally denoted someone who looked after horses, ultimately from Germanic marah ‘horse’ + scalc ‘servant’. By the time it became fixed as a surname it had the meaning ‘shoeing smith’ later it came to denote an official whose duties were to a large extent ceremonial. The surname is pronounced the same as the Latin name Martial (from Latin Mars, genitive Martis; compare Martin). This may have contributed something to its use as a given name.
| 668th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 55,429
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 77,415
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Marshall per capita
- 1918
- marked the height of its popularity
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30%
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19%
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