Marcelene
Marcelene was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 930 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcelene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marcelene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,618, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1928, the peak
Marcelene peaked in 1928, when 49 girls were given it, #1,077 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,618 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,966 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,671 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,825 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,867 | 3.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,295 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,979 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,821 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,275 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,764 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 7 | #5,994 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,498 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,722 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,239 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,476 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,434 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,623 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,152 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,494 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,201 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,757 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,187 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,824 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,497 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,617 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,037 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,875 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,221 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,308 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,107 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,560 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,593 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,693 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,299 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,581 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,648 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,971 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,334 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,721 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,175 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,735 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,377 | 27.3 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,363 | 27.9 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,471 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,394 | 26.8 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,346 | 28.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,730 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,171 | 35.7 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,641 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,099 | 40.3 |
| 1928 | 49 | #1,077 | 42.5 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,474 | 26.0 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,910 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,160 | 14.8 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,760 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,267 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,078 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,573 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,827 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,132 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,412 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,024 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,758 | 10.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcelene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcelene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcelene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcelene, and how old are they?
An estimated 372 Americans named Marcelene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 62 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 511 people named Marcelene (511 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 464 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,272 babies since 1880, Marcelene is the fourth most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 792 babies recorded by SSA was a Marcelene (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marceline | 6,738 | 733 | 2025 |
| Marcelina | 3,419 | 59 | 2024 |
| Marcelline | 1,073 | under 5 | 1928 |
| Marcelene | 930 | under 5 | 1928 |
| Marcellene | 112 | under 5 | 1929 |
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 Marcelene
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 Marcelene and names like it
- Compare Marcelene and MarcelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarcelene peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marcelene since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Marcelene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marcelene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.