Marcelo
Marcelo was given to 798 boys in 2025, #399 among boys’ names; 13,231 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,300 Americans named Marcelo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcelo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marcelo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Marcelo is “a male given name, equivalent to English Marcellus”
From Latin Mārcellus.
/maɾˈθelo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marcelo?
#399 among boys’ names, 2025
Marcelo rose from #763 in 2015 to #399 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.16 to 0.47 per 1,000.
798 babies in 2025, the peak
Marcelo peaked in 2025, when 798 boys were given it, #399 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 710 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 798 | #399 | 0.47 |
| 2024 | 710 | #444 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 566 | #522 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 545 | #543 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 478 | #584 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 418 | #642 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 483 | #577 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 440 | #614 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 463 | #588 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 317 | #767 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 313 | #763 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 319 | #744 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 270 | #812 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 284 | #796 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 263 | #827 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 248 | #856 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 254 | #845 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 284 | #781 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 273 | #789 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 217 | #900 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 215 | #857 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 183 | #927 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 185 | #901 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 188 | #873 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 198 | #825 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 190 | #840 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 186 | #822 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 173 | #845 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 135 | #972 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 157 | #874 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 138 | #945 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,082 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 99 | #1,132 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 121 | #982 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,044 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 116 | #972 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,066 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 100 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 84 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 87 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 89 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 76 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 72 | #958 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 78 | #927 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,089 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,045 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,200 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 33 | #1,330 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,066 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,060 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 31 | #1,417 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,183 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,671 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,352 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,485 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,815 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,567 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,866 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,884 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,581 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,296 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,337 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,627 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,306 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,451 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,271 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,765 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,626 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,518 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,611 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,882 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,731 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,148 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,789 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,139 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,133 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,111 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,097 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,286 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcelo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcelo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcelo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcelo, and how old are they?
12,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 13,231 Americans ever recorded as Marcelo. The median Marcelo alive today is 14 years old; half are between 5 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 20,317 people named Marcelo (69 women and girls, 20,248 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 60 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 351 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 865 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,080 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Marcelo born?
The states with the most babies named Marcelo are Texas, California and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 204 | #184 | 2.5× |
| California | 151 | #247 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 78 | #269 | 1.7× |
| Arizona | 37 | #222 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 27 | #413 | 0.8× |
| New York | 22 | #677 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #405 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 19 | #555 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 17 | #437 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #611 | 0.2× |
Where Marcelo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marcelo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marcelo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 19,849 babies since 1880, Marcelo is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 798 of their 1,063 babies (75%), again the most given.
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 Marcelo
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 Marcelo and names like it
- Compare Marcelo and MarcelloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMarcelo peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marcelo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Marcelo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Marcelo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marcelo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.