Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Markal

#20,534 most common boys' name of all time · #53,846 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1994–2007

Rank among boys
#20,534
Rank overall
#53,846 of 105,966
First appeared
1994
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
44
Since 2016
0
Peak year
2003 #8,396
Best rank
#8,396 2003
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
2000

Markal first appears in 1994. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2007 — 5 5 #13,313
2004 — 5 5 #12,356
2003 — 8 8 #8,396
2002 — 5 5 #11,729
2000 — 6 6 #9,962
1998 — 5 5 #10,772
1997 — 5 5 #10,361
1994 — 5 5 #10,118