Marcelo

Where Marcelo comes from

Marcelo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,200 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa born
    Portuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal
  3. 1988
    Marcelo Vieira born
    Brazilian association football player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #398
    798 babies named Marcelo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marcelo Vieira · Brazilian association football player, born 1988
  • Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa · Portuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal, born 1948
  • Marcelo Brozović · Croatian association football player, born 1992
  • Marcelo Bielsa · Argentinian association football player and manager, born 1955
  • Marcelo Caetano · Portuguese politician, 1906–1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.