Meaning not yet researched.
Marceline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 733 in 2025. Its best rank was #424 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Marceline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#424 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Marceline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 733 girls in 2025. Peak: #424 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 733 (2025).
In 2025, 733 US girls were named Marceline, making it the 424th most common girls’ name of the year, up 82 places from #506 in 2024. That is 126 more than the 607 girls named Marceline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #424, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 733. For comparison, it was #1,672 in 2015 and #2,397 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marceline in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 6 babies. In all, 6,738 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,904 babies named Marceline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,666 US girls were named Marceline; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 733. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,193 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marceline ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #205 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Marcelina, Marcelline and Marcelene are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marcelina (3,419), Marcelline (1,073), Marcelene (930), Marcelyn (709), Marcellene (112), Marcilene (21), Marcelaine (12), Marcelin (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marceline in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 8 | #205 | — |
| Oregon | 17 | #215 | — |
| Nevada | 11 | #255 | — |
| South Dakota | 5 | #261 | — |
| Washington | 27 | #270 | — |
| Missouri | 23 | #274 | — |
| Kansas | 11 | #312 | — |
| Arkansas | 10 | #328 | — |
| Colorado | 19 | #331 | — |
| California | 99 | #332 | #1,369 |
| Indiana | 21 | #341 | #1,210 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #356 | — |
| Tennessee | 21 | #385 | — |
| Michigan | 23 | #386 | — |
| Ohio | 29 | #398 | #1,611 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #417 | — |
| Texas | 81 | #419 | #1,450 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #427 | — |
| Utah | 10 | #430 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #451 | — |
| Virginia | 18 | #454 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #457 | — |
| Illinois | 23 | #464 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #466 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #480 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #484 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #487 | — |
| Florida | 35 | #525 | #1,771 |
| Arizona | 12 | #562 | — |
| Georgia | 19 | #574 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #574 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #597 | — |
| New York | 24 | #694 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #698 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #783 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #902 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 733 | #424 | — | — |
| 2024 | 607 | #506 | — | — |
| 2023 | 508 | #590 | — | — |
| 2022 | 431 | #677 | — | — |
| 2021 | 362 | #786 | — | — |
| 2020 | 263 | #970 | — | — |
| 2019 | 238 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2014 | 143 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,975 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,244 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,358 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,439 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,786 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,758 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,922 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,331 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,842 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,811 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,942 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,888 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,753 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,901 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,737 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,508 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,955 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,136 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,146 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,611 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,050 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,790 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,877 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,605 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,064 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,648 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,249 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,769 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1934 | 48 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1933 | 60 | #872 | — | — |
| 1932 | 77 | #773 | — | — |
| 1931 | 87 | #723 | — | — |
| 1930 | 126 | #615 | — | — |
| 1929 | 201 | #474 | — | — |
| 1928 | 241 | #437 | — | — |
| 1927 | 166 | #550 | — | — |
| 1926 | 97 | #737 | — | — |
| 1925 | 79 | #839 | — | — |
| 1924 | 69 | #916 | — | — |
| 1923 | 55 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1921 | 49 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,290 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).