Marvellous
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Marvellous is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 4.9K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 66K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marvellous 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Marvellous | 63 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #875 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Marvellous | 17 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Marvellous | 23 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 2 | Marvellous | 5 |
| GH Ghana | #916 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Marvellous | 16 |
| PL Poland | — | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 6 | — | — |
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: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Marvellous is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, stupernaturally the birthday festival of a god. wandering in thought, (i6ng-sing). divine principle. theology as a science. the name of two door-divinities, written on doors as charms to keep out evil spirits, (sing 4if1)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marvellous mean, and where does it come from?
- Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Marvellous a male or female name?
- Marvellous is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Marvellous have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Marvellous in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marvellous.
- How common is the name Marvellous?
- In Poland, the national register counted 11 people named Marvellous in 2026, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
- How common is Marvellous compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Marvellous is the 875th most common given name of 4,125 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marvellousThe 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, “Marvellous” — the 875th most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.