Marcene
Marcene was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 1,282 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marcene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,217, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1946, the peak
Marcene peaked in 1946, when 43 girls were given it, #1,331 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #11,217 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,168 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,357 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,422 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,310 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,714 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,276 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,612 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,711 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,681 | 13.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 11 | #4,104 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,698 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,814 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,275 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,106 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,918 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,345 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,374 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,923 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,460 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,784 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,312 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,754 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,911 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,763 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,683 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,465 | 23.4 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,756 | 17.5 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,051 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,594 | 20.3 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,331 | 27.4 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,533 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,943 | 15.1 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,355 | 26.5 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,741 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,235 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,456 | 24.5 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,662 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,626 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,711 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,364 | 27.9 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,700 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,336 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,431 | 26.8 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,441 | 26.2 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,273 | 31.0 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,913 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,801 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,759 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,856 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,967 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,776 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,791 | 19.2 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,482 | 25.7 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,558 | 24.1 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,901 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,365 | 28.4 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,088 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,942 | 9.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,699 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcene, and how old are they?
An estimated 609 Americans named Marcene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 65 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 920 people named Marcene (905 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,790 babies since 1880, Marcene is the most given (46% of them).
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 Marcene
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 Marcene and names like it
- Compare Marcene and MarcineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarcene peaked in 1946.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marcene since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Marcene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marcene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.