Marcel

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Marcel is ranked 753rd among boys in 2024 (339 births). Its best rank was 500th, in 1925.

Rank in 2024: #753up 8 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3390.02% of boys
Peak year: 2022417 births
Best rank: #500in 1925
Since 1881: 20,759people given the name

Babies named Marcel, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

19,767 boys have been named Marcel in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 417 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 2010s alone account for 14%. It has spent 121 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 992 girls have also been given it, 4.8% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Marcel
1880s	10
1890s	24
1900s	62
1910s	646
1920s	1,281
1930s	877
1940s	757
1950s	1,035
1960s	1,451
1970s	1,718
1980s	2,139
1990s	2,793
2000s	2,253
2010s	2,864
2020s	1,857

In 2022, its biggest year

Marcel was the 659th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Marcel

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.