girls:
992 births since 1915
#4724 (17th percentile)
boys:
19.4k births since 1881
#831 (82nd percentile)
overall:
20.4k births since 1881
#1794 (77th percentile)
The name Marcel is the #1,794 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,417 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 76.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #831 (81.9% percentile) for all time with 19,425 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #4,724 (17.3% percentile) for all time with 992 births since 1915.
Marcel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Marcel is available in 128 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (128 years for boys and 84 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marcel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Marcel reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 40.6% percentile (ranked #549) with 222 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 222 births per million (ranked 40.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Marcel ranks #595 for boys (34.7% percentile) with 186 births per million, which is 83.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marcel reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #746) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marcel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.9% confident that Marcel is pronounced as mahr-SEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-sehl, at 27.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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