# Marmaduke (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marmaduke/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | “devotee of maedóc” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Thought to be derived from the Irish name Mael Maedóc, "devotee of Maedóc" (an Irish saint); also anglicised as Malachy.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |

## People named Marmaduke

- Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English (1875–1936)
- Marmaduke Tunstall, English ornithologist; (1743-1790)
- Marmaduke Wyvill, British chess player and MP (1815-1896)
- William Marmaduke Kavanaugh, American politician (1866-1915)
- Marmaduke Grove, Chilean socialist politician and officer (1878–1954)
- M. A. Wetherell, British actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.