Marcee
Marcee was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 703 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marcee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marcee is “a diminutive of the female given name Marcella.”
Clipping of Marcella.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marcee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,105, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1971, the peak
Marcee peaked in 1971, when 35 girls were given it, #2,281 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,105 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,921 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,772 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,859 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,618 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,472 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,308 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,684 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,919 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,688 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 7 | #9,145 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,319 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,161 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,669 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,844 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,647 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,424 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,763 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,343 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,816 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,610 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,751 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,381 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,575 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,019 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,281 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,426 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,381 | 17.8 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,022 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,025 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,111 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,355 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,453 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,274 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,638 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,422 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,614 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,940 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,144 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,697 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,583 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,514 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,562 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,767 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,632 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,039 | 7.2 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,029 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,029 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcee, and how old are they?
An estimated 626 Americans named Marcee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 48 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 700 people named Marcee (695 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 649 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 189,376 babies since 1880, Marcee is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 173 babies recorded by SSA was a Marcee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marcee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marcee and names like it
- Compare Marcee and MarciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarcee peaked in 1971.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marcee since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Marcee.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marcee alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.