Marcellis
Marcellis was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 310 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcellis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marcellis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,371, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1994, the peak
Marcellis peaked in 1994, when 25 boys were given it, #2,906 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #9,371 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,480 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,423 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,637 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,666 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,342 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,319 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,332 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,345 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,351 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #7,523 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,538 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,248 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,801 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,813 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,763 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,935 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,033 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,708 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,895 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,670 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,420 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,312 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,693 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,906 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,609 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,128 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,378 | 6.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,036 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,199 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,635 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,420 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,756 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,199 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,703 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcellis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcellis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcellis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcellis, and how old are they?
An estimated 301 Americans named Marcellis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 17 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 278 people named Marcellis (10 women and girls, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below 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 11,632 babies since 1880, Marcellis is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 221 babies recorded by SSA was a Marcellis (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcellus | 9,608 | 208 | 2021 |
| Marcellous | 1,062 | 13 | 1993 |
| Marcellis | 310 | under 5 | 1994 |
| Marcelus | 307 | under 5 | 1996 |
| Marcelis | 113 | under 5 | 1992 |
| Marcelles | 92 | under 5 | 1988 |
| Marcellas | 79 | under 5 | 1976 |
| Marcellius | 61 | under 5 | 1996 |
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 Marcellis
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 Marcellis and names like it
- Compare Marcellis and MarcellusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarcellis peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Marcellis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marcellis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.