Marshall
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from marshal, originally a Germanic word meaning ‘horse-servant’; later an occupation name for a high-ranking servant or farrier/blacksmith
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹʃəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marshall is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the United Kingdom it is the 68th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.1K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #460 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 588 (measured from records)
- 1 in 618 (inferred from the name graph)
183,922 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from marshal, originally a Germanic word meaning ‘horse-servant’; later an occupation name for a high-ranking servant or farrier/blacksmith
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marshall counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #119 | 183,922 | 1 in 1.8K | 184K | Marshall | 588 |
| GB United Kingdom | #68 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 4 | Marshall | 339 |
| CA Canada | #93 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 14 | Marshall | 281 |
| AU Australia | #81 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 5 | Marshall | 269 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Marshall | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | #74 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 11 | Marshall | 164 |
| GY Guyana | — | 810 | 1 in 926 | 810 | — | 15 |
| GD Grenada | — | 183 | 1 in 618 | 183 | — | 9 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 136 | 1 in 746 | 136 | — | 5 |
183,922 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marshall is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OFr mareschal, marescal, marescald, marechault ‘farrier; horse-tender’; first attested Goisfridus Marescal 1084 GeldR (W)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Occupational name for a groom or horse minder; Scots marischal from Old French mareschal. Recorded as Maledoni Marescal from 1130.
as a nameScottish Surnames
An occupational name for a groom or horse minder, Scots marischal from Old French mareschal. As such it is widespread. Maledoni Marescal is recorded from 1130. The title of Earl Marischal is not a name but refers to the function of head of the royal cavalry.
as a nameScottish Surnames
maréchal (military title)
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, chief justice; Thurgood, US jurist;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Marshallb. 1755USchief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835)
- Alfred Marshallb. 1842GBBritish economist (1842–1924)
- Frank Marshallb. 1877USAmerican chess player
- George Marshallb. 1880USAmerican army officer and statesman (1880–1959)
- Thurgood Marshallb. 1908USAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)
- Garry Marshallb. 1934USAmerican actor and filmmaker (1934–2016)
- Penny Marshallb. 1943USAmerican actress, director and producer (1943–2018)
- Kenneth Marshallb. 1950USAmerican actor
- Barry Marshallb. 1951AUNobel Prize winner, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology
- Rob Marshallb. 1960USAmerican film and theatre director and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 40 countries.
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marshall mean, and where does it come from?
- from marshal, originally a Germanic word meaning ‘horse-servant’; later an occupation name for a high-ranking servant or farrier/blacksmith Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Marshall have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 184 thousand people named Marshall, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marshall.
- Where is Marshall most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marshall is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 618 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marshall?
- In the United States, the national register counted 183,922 people named Marshall in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Marshall compared with other names?
- In the United States, Marshall is the 119th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Marshall?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹʃəl/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marshallThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marshall” — the 119th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.