girls:
5.4k births since 1894
#2284 (60th percentile)
boys:
502 births since 1919
#4084 (11th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1894
#3534 (54th percentile)
The name Marcelle is the #3,534 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,890 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 54.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,284 (60.0% percentile) for all time with 5,388 births since 1894. For boys, it ranks #4,084 (10.9% percentile) for all time with 502 births since 1919.
Marcelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for girls and 1919 for boys). Birth data for Marcelle is available in 127 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (127 years for girls and 58 years for boys). 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 Marcelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marcelle reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 27.2% percentile (ranked #443) with 142 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 142 births per million (ranked 27.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marcelle ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marcelle reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #641) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcelle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marcelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.3% confident that Marcelle is pronounced as mahr-SEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-sehl, at 22.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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