# Marcell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marcell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,988 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,862 / 1,126 (19% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 233, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | 8,182 |
| 1979 | 10 | 6,491 |
| 1980 | 8 | 7,834 |
| 1981 | 5 | 11,418 |
| 1983 | 10 | 6,509 |
| 1984 | 9 | 7,164 |
| 1985 | 6 | 10,110 |
| 1986 | 8 | 8,192 |
| 1989 | 8 | 9,290 |
| 1991 | 7 | 11,010 |
| 1992 | 6 | 12,727 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,307 |
| 1995 | 6 | 12,737 |
| 1996 | 7 | 11,332 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,487 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 68 | 2,013 |
| 2012 | 81 | 1,825 |
| 2013 | 53 | 2,387 |
| 2014 | 64 | 2,148 |
| 2015 | 55 | 2,378 |
| 2016 | 75 | 1,953 |
| 2017 | 72 | 1,993 |
| 2018 | 53 | 2,461 |
| 2019 | 75 | 1,968 |
| 2020 | 54 | 2,430 |
| 2021 | 85 | 1,832 |
| 2022 | 62 | 2,309 |
| 2023 | 55 | 2,465 |
| 2024 | 49 | 2,697 |
| 2025 | 58 | 2,375 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,124 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Marcell

- Marcell Jansen, German association football player
- Marcell Ozuna, Dominican baseball player (born 1990)
- Rod Wave, American rapper and singer-songwriter (born 1998)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.