Marcelle
Marcelle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 533rd, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920177 births
- Best rank
- #533in 1920
- Since 1894
- 5,899people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,397 girls have been named Marcelle in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 177 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 177 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 502 boys have also been given it, 8.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marcelle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 27 | |
| 1900s | 117 | |
| 1910s | 689 | |
| 1920s | 1,175 | |
| 1930s | 478 | |
| 1940s | 439 | |
| 1950s | 618 | |
| 1960s | 675 | |
| 1970s | 410 | |
| 1980s | 279 | |
| 1990s | 207 | |
| 2000s | 122 | |
| 2010s | 107 | |
| 2020s | 54 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Marcelle was the 533rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Marcelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Santapeak 1923
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Oneidapeak 1919
- Virginapeak 1922
- Lavenapeak 1922
- Carmellapeak 1922
- Leonardapeak 1920
- Carmelapeak 1923
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.