girls:
10 births since 1966
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.1k births since 1912
#1504 (67th percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1912
#3462 (55th percentile)
The name Marcello is the #3,462 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,128 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 55.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,504 (67.2% percentile) for all time with 6,118 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1966.
Marcello first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1966 for girls). Birth data for Marcello is available in 107 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 2 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 Marcello has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Marcello reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 20.4% percentile (ranked #722) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 90 births per million (ranked 17.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Marcello ranks #770 for boys (15.5% percentile) with 80 births per million, which is 88.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marcello reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #741) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marcello".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Marcello", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 4 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Marcelo" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Marcelo..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marcello. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.1% confident that Marcello is pronounced as mahr-CHEH-loh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahr-SEH-loh, at 28.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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