Marcellous
Marcellous is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199336 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 1,049people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,049 boys have been named Marcellous in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 36 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 22%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Marcellous | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 24 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 46 | |
| 1950s | 48 | |
| 1960s | 73 | |
| 1970s | 117 | |
| 1980s | 137 | |
| 1990s | 232 | |
| 2000s | 176 | |
| 2010s | 119 | |
| 2020s | 62 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Marcellous was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Marcellous
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Guillermopeak 1998
- Artemiopeak 2001
- Marcellpeak 1991
- Juliopeak 1990
- Rogeliopeak 2005
- Efrenpeak 2007
- Arturopeak 2005
- Efrainpeak 1993
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.