Marcello — #1001 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marcello

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,342 babies named Marcello between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marcello currently holds the #1001 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 224 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marcello performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,556 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Marcello shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,042 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marcello in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marcello 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 6,342 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.