Marcel — #751 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marcel

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,767 babies named Marcel between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marcel currently holds the #751 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 417 babies received it in a single year. Marcel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 992 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marcel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,864 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Marcel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,625 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Marcel in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marcel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,767 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.