In 2025, 102 US boys were named Marcelino, making it the 1,649th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3 places from #1,646 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 103 boys named Marcelino in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #831, reached in 1929. The most boys given the name in a single year was 130, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,536 in 2015 and #895 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcelino in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 7,476 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,036 babies named Marcelino.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 947 US boys were named Marcelino; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,746 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marcelino ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #969 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcelo (13,231 babies since 1880) and Marcello (6,618 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marcellino and Marselino are summarised on this page.