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Marcell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,009 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,009 in 1973; #2,375 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marcell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,375 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #1,009.
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Marcell: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,009 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 105 (1991).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Marcell, making it the 2,375th most common boys’ name of the year, up 322 places from #2,697 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 49 boys named Marcell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,009, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 105, in 1991. For comparison, it was #2,378 in 2015 and #1,923 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Marcell in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,419, reached in 1923. That year also had the most girls given the name: 33. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,585 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcell in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 11 babies. In all, 5,988 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 962 babies named Marcell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 638 US boys were named Marcell; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marcell ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,552 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcel (21,123 babies since 1880), Marcellus (9,608 babies since 1880), Marcello (6,618 babies since 1880) and Markel (4,829 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marcille, Marzelle and Marceille are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marcille (651), Marzelle (109), Marceille (37).
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 Marcell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,552 | #1,510 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,575 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 58 | #2,375 |
| 2024 | — | — | 49 | #2,697 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,465 |
| 2022 | — | — | 62 | #2,309 |
| 2021 | — | — | 85 | #1,832 |
| 2020 | — | — | 54 | #2,430 |
| 2019 | — | — | 75 | #1,968 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,461 |
| 2017 | — | — | 72 | #1,993 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,953 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,378 |
| 2014 | — | — | 64 | #2,148 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,387 |
| 2012 | — | — | 81 | #1,825 |
| 2011 | — | — | 68 | #2,013 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,110 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,680 |
| 2008 | — | — | 76 | #1,913 |
| 2007 | — | — | 95 | #1,631 |
| 2006 | — | — | 89 | #1,626 |
| 2005 | — | — | 67 | #1,902 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,778 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,603 |
| 2002 | — | — | 80 | #1,552 |
| 2001 | — | — | 81 | #1,509 |
| 2000 | — | — | 88 | #1,414 |
| 1999 | — | — | 90 | #1,338 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,487 | 87 | #1,357 |
| 1997 | — | — | 88 | #1,305 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,332 | 91 | #1,232 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,737 | 87 | #1,251 |
| 1994 | — | — | 97 | #1,159 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,307 | 88 | #1,201 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,727 | 87 | #1,205 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,010 | 105 | #1,060 |
| 1990 | — | — | 103 | #1,045 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,290 | 94 | #1,087 |
| 1988 | — | — | 76 | #1,160 |
| 1987 | — | — | 64 | #1,211 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,192 | 66 | #1,169 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,110 | 74 | #1,081 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,164 | 62 | #1,160 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,509 | 56 | #1,228 |
| 1982 | — | — | 49 | #1,348 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,418 | 53 | #1,264 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,834 | 65 | #1,130 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,491 | 52 | #1,282 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,182 | 37 | #1,557 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,168 | 62 | #1,111 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,791 | 42 | #1,387 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,117 | 66 | #1,014 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,896 | 47 | #1,225 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,423 | 64 | #1,009 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,819 | 60 | #1,044 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,738 | 56 | #1,096 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,659 | 55 | #1,110 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,330 | 42 | #1,229 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,930 | 38 | #1,242 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,276 | 28 | #1,466 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,547 | 43 | #1,143 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,005 | 27 | #1,502 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,058 | 19 | #1,879 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,032 | 19 | #1,873 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,506 | 17 | #2,008 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,649 | 23 | #1,719 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,345 | 19 | #1,890 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,435 | 17 | #2,015 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,720 | 23 | #1,668 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,789 | 9 | #2,947 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,441 | 16 | #2,060 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,315 | 14 | #2,194 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,971 | 13 | #2,278 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,650 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,003 | 22 | #1,648 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,635 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,585 | 16 | #1,923 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,104 | 15 | #1,999 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,562 | 18 | #1,793 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,998 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,351 | 11 | #2,358 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,302 | 9 | #2,513 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,976 | 13 | #2,139 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,495 | 9 | #2,641 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,970 | 7 | #3,033 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,665 | 11 | #2,266 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,092 | 8 | #2,737 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,990 | 10 | #2,422 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,268 | 12 | #2,157 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,010 | 13 | #2,026 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,753 | 16 | #1,802 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,671 | 10 | #2,502 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,494 | 7 | #3,183 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,854 | 10 | #2,568 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,534 | 6 | #3,628 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,166 | 18 | #1,792 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,685 | 15 | #2,068 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,714 | 14 | #2,227 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,217 | 15 | #2,164 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,606 | 17 | #1,956 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,727 | 14 | #2,276 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,620 | 22 | #1,708 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,419 | 20 | #1,794 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,667 | 23 | #1,623 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,254 | 14 | #2,327 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,046 | 17 | #2,019 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,831 | 14 | #2,219 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,615 | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,262 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,951 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,035 | 12 | #2,253 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,978 | 10 | #2,211 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,509 | 7 | #2,407 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,263 | 6 | #2,455 |
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).