Meaning not yet researched.
Marcelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #533 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #533 in 1920; #6,729 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Marcelle in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,729 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #533.
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Marcelle: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #533 in 1920 · most girls in one year: 177 (1920).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Marcelle, making it the 6,729th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,061 places from #10,790 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 9 girls named Marcelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #533, reached in 1920. That year also had the most girls given the name: 177. For comparison, it was #12,569 in 2015 and #1,207 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Marcelle, making it the 13,213th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #2,365, reached in 1970. The most boys given the name in a single year was 17, in 1974. For comparison, it was #13,319 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcelle in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 5,921 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 8.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,192 babies named Marcelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US girls were named Marcelle; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcella (65,836 babies since 1880), Marcela (8,955 babies since 1880), Markel (4,829 babies since 1880) and Marcel (21,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marseille 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marseille (34).
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 Marcelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,729 | 5 | #13,213 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,790 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,074 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,173 | 6 | #11,774 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,621 | 6 | #11,641 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,251 | 10 | #7,871 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,916 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,990 | 7 | #10,351 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,128 | 8 | #9,396 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,112 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,569 | 5 | #13,319 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,667 | 8 | #9,322 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,745 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,893 | 9 | #8,617 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,945 | 8 | #9,307 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,153 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,233 | 8 | #9,561 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,804 | 5 | #13,847 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,343 | 5 | #13,662 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,684 | 8 | #9,266 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,042 | 5 | #12,640 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,548 | 8 | #8,639 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,316 | 10 | #7,054 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,577 | 10 | #6,860 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,138 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,863 | 10 | #6,650 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,816 | 9 | #6,900 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,741 | 9 | #6,640 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,462 | 6 | #8,864 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,684 | 8 | #6,891 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,737 | 11 | #5,380 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,778 | 9 | #6,164 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,453 | 11 | #5,240 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,328 | 9 | #5,959 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,111 | 8 | #6,305 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,459 | 11 | #4,882 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,971 | 10 | #5,042 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,853 | 11 | #4,347 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,698 | 11 | #4,139 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,422 | 10 | #4,342 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,683 | 14 | #3,324 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,819 | 8 | #4,820 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,206 | 7 | #5,263 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,063 | 9 | #4,452 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,472 | 6 | #5,974 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,327 | 9 | #4,369 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,329 | 12 | #3,483 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,835 | 6 | #5,519 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,443 | 10 | #3,751 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,612 | 10 | #3,634 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,262 | 14 | #2,849 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,091 | 17 | #2,418 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,110 | 16 | #2,463 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,646 | 7 | #4,268 |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,423 | 10 | #3,288 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,692 | 16 | #2,365 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,569 | 9 | #3,230 |
| 1968 | 64 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,292 | 5 | #4,334 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1965 | 70 | #1,297 | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1964 | 64 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1962 | 65 | #1,380 | 9 | #2,974 |
| 1961 | 74 | #1,294 | 7 | #3,553 |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,412 | 5 | #4,393 |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1954 | 70 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1953 | 57 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1948 | 63 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1933 | 51 | #967 | — | — |
| 1932 | 52 | #985 | — | — |
| 1931 | 60 | #893 | — | — |
| 1930 | 76 | #814 | — | — |
| 1929 | 68 | #865 | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1928 | 91 | #748 | — | — |
| 1927 | 99 | #727 | — | — |
| 1926 | 105 | #711 | — | — |
| 1925 | 91 | #777 | — | — |
| 1924 | 135 | #647 | — | — |
| 1923 | 142 | #619 | 5 | #4,642 |
| 1922 | 121 | #660 | — | — |
| 1921 | 146 | #601 | — | — |
| 1920 | 177 | #533 | 6 | #4,102 |
| 1919 | 148 | #568 | 5 | #4,558 |
| 1918 | 144 | #593 | — | — |
| 1917 | 90 | #742 | — | — |
| 1916 | 70 | #815 | — | — |
| 1915 | 60 | #844 | — | — |
| 1914 | 43 | #897 | — | — |
| 1913 | 48 | #763 | — | — |
| 1912 | 40 | #790 | — | — |
| 1911 | 23 | #918 | — | — |
| 1910 | 23 | #908 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1908 | 19 | #931 | — | — |
| 1907 | 18 | #913 | — | — |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1904 | 17 | #900 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #959 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,623 | — | — |
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).