# Marvis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marvis/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,468 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,102 / 1,366 (55% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 22 | 2,651 |
| 1962 | 15 | 3,380 |
| 1963 | 13 | 3,743 |
| 1964 | 21 | 2,794 |
| 1965 | 15 | 3,363 |
| 1966 | 10 | 4,378 |
| 1967 | 10 | 4,504 |
| 1968 | 7 | 6,019 |
| 1969 | 6 | 7,142 |
| 1971 | 9 | 5,836 |
| 1972 | 12 | 4,689 |
| 1973 | 7 | 7,122 |
| 1974 | 5 | 9,657 |
| 1976 | 8 | 7,019 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,766 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9 | 7,201 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,699 |
| 2002 | 6 | 10,210 |
| 2003 | 8 | 8,344 |
| 2004 | 9 | 7,955 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,475 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10,264 |
| 2007 | 10 | 7,973 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,318 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,510 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,364 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,639 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,608 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,353 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,359 |

## People named Marvis

- Bootsy Thornton, American basketball player (born 1977)

## 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.