All over the world, מרשל (Marshall 
, Marshal , Marchal ) is a common boy's first name. The first name מרשל is habitual in British Virgin Islands, where it is quite a common masculine name, the United States, and Zimbabwe, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in the United States, India, and Nigeria. More prevalently, מרשל is the last name as well as the forename.
מרשל is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Marshall Eriksen , the fictional character, How I Met Your Mother; Marshall Winslow , the character in the video game Saints Row; Marshall Law , the character in the Tekken fighting game series, Tekken 4; Marshall , the fictional character in PAW Patrol and Marshall Flinkman , the fictional character on the television series Alias, and in many other works.