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Marceau

#8,013 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Marcel

Marceau has been given to 51 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #8,013 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Marceau, 2025

1 in 332,000

Marceau over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marceau: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marcel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marceau means

Marceau is a variant of Marcel.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 51 boys were recorded with the name Marceau between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,561 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,865 in 2020 to #8,013 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Marceau?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,013
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marceau sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marceau. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marceaus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marceau was born before 2021 — so the typical Marceau is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
72.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
51
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 72.5% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Marceau rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−452
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−148
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2024 (11)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,561
2024

Spellings of Marceau

Marceau is not the most common spelling — Marcel is, with 50.0% against Marceau's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Marceau around the world

Where Marceau ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #13
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Marceau by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,013
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 148
Best rank ever
#7,561
2024
Peak year
2024
11 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Marceau

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Marceau

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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