Marcell
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #12,426 · #2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
Given to boys 81.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 64 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,862since 1912
Marcell over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,363 | 58 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,674 | 49 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,441 | 55 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,299 | 62 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,823 | 85 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,419 | 54 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,954 | 75 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,445 | 53 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,977 | 72 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,936 | 75 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,355 | 55 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,138 | 64 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,364 | 53 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,818 | 81 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,999 | 68 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,665 | 94 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,899 | 76 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,621 | 95 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,617 | 89 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,889 | 67 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,763 | 71 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,591 | 79 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,543 | 80 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,502 | 81 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,408 | 88 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,329 | 90 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,356 | 87 |
| 1997 | — | #1,294 | 88 | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #1,226 | 91 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #1,244 | 87 |
| 1994 | — | #1,153 | 97 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #1,196 | 88 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,197 | 87 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,055 | 105 |
| 1990 | — | #1,042 | 103 | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #1,082 | 94 |
| 1988 | — | #1,154 | 76 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,202 | 64 | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,161 | 66 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #1,078 | 74 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #1,222 | 56 |
| 1982 | — | #1,342 | 49 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,259 | 53 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,125 | 65 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #1,270 | 52 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #1,537 | 37 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,099 | 62 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #1,373 | 42 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 | #1,007 | 66 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | #1,215 | 47 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #1,006 | 64 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | #1,040 | 60 |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 | #1,091 | 56 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | #1,103 | 55 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 | #1,221 | 42 |
| 1968 | #2,874 | 20 | #1,233 | 38 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #1,449 | 28 |
| 1966 | #2,519 | 23 | #1,131 | 43 |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 | #1,483 | 27 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 | #1,850 | 19 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | #1,839 | 19 |
| 1962 | #2,463 | 24 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1961 | #2,608 | 22 | #1,686 | 23 |
| 1960 | #2,307 | 26 | #1,858 | 19 |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 | #1,974 | 17 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 | #1,644 | 23 |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | #2,015 | 16 |
| 1955 | #3,225 | 13 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | #1,615 | 22 |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | #2,055 | 14 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 | #1,879 | 16 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | #1,941 | 15 |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 | #1,758 | 18 |
| 1947 | #2,898 | 13 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 | #2,271 | 11 |
| 1945 | #2,237 | 15 | #2,393 | 9 |
| 1944 | #1,808 | 22 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,949 | 20 | #2,074 | 13 |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 | #2,523 | 9 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 | #2,872 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 | #2,179 | 11 |
| 1939 | #2,038 | 16 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 | #2,326 | 10 |
| 1937 | #2,196 | 14 | #2,088 | 12 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | #1,964 | 13 |
| 1935 | #1,720 | 20 | #1,757 | 16 |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 | #2,393 | 10 |
| 1933 | #2,404 | 12 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | #1,817 | 19 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #1,502 | 25 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #2,110 | 16 | #1,753 | 18 |
| 1929 | #1,642 | 23 | #2,002 | 15 |
| 1928 | #2,623 | 12 | #2,162 | 14 |
| 1927 | #2,169 | 17 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1926 | #1,589 | 27 | #1,911 | 17 |
| 1925 | #1,700 | 25 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 | #1,675 | 22 |
| 1923 | #1,388 | 33 | #1,753 | 20 |
| 1922 | #1,646 | 26 | #1,591 | 23 |
| 1921 | #2,195 | 17 | #2,265 | 14 |
| 1920 | #2,015 | 19 | #1,966 | 17 |
| 1919 | #1,801 | 21 | #2,152 | 14 |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 | #2,882 | 9 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,833 | 10 | #2,259 | 12 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | #2,184 | 12 |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | #2,101 | 10 |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | #2,269 | 6 |
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First appearance
1912
The first year at least five boys were named Marcell! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Marcell
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 311 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,363)
- 56 spots since 2020 (#2,419 → #2,363)
- 8 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #2,363)
Rise & fade · boys
61 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1973 at #1,006 (64 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,241
- Highest: 1 in 19,241 boys born in 1991 were named Marcell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,006 in 1973, was only 1 in 24,353 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 19.0% of all boys named Marcell (923) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1963
- Mostly girls until 1962, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 81 | #2,101 (1914) | #2,318 |
| 1920s | 171 | #1,591 (1922) | #1,964 |
| 1930s | 110 | #1,753 (1930) | #2,375 |
| 1940s | 105 | #1,758 (1948) | #2,251 |
| 1950s | 154 | #1,615 (1952) | #2,088 |
| 1960s | 275 | #1,131 (1966) | #1,571 |
| 1970s | 541 | #1,006 (1973) | #1,174 |
| 1980s | 659 | #1,078 (1985) | #1,178 |
| 1990s | 923 | #1,042 (1990) | #1,209 |
| 2000s | 820 | #1,408 (2000) | #1,650 |
| 2010s | 660 | #1,818 (2012) | #2,109 |
| 2020s | 363 | #1,823 (2021) | #2,337 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marcell in 2008
boys
#1,899
76 births · 1 in 26,844 boys
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 26,844 of them was named Marcell, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Ranked beside Marcell
- #1,874Wylie77
- #1,874Yehoshua77
- #1,874Zayd77
- #1,899Marcell76
- #1,899Aadi76
- #1,899Barron76
- #1,899Brenner76
- #1,916Aaryan75
- #1,916Anirudh75
- #1,916Archie75
Tied with 16 names at #1,899; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.