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Marceline

#424 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Marcellinus

Marceline has been given to 6,738 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #424 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 733 recorded.

Babies named Marceline, 2025

1 in 4,520

Marceline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marceline: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Marcellinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marceline means

Marceline is a feminine form of Marcellinus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

(place in Missouri): From the female given name.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Marceline (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Marceline is used in English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcellinus and Marcelin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Marceline is pronounced /ˈmɑɹ.səˌlin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,738 girls were recorded with the name Marceline between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 733 in 2025; its best national rank was #424 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #970 in 2020 to #424 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,672 in 2015 to #424 in 2025.

How common is Marceline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,520
733 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,190
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#424
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,136 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marceline sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,136 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marceline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marceline was born before 2017 — so the typical Marceline is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,599
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (2,904).

Is Marceline 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
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+546
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,248
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.73×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (733)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#424
2025

Spellings of Marceline

Marceline is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 90.1% against Marceline's 2.9%.

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.

Where Marceline is used

Across 2016–2025, Marceline was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 2,174 girls, against 1 in 4,142 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 20,000).

546 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 2,174
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,222
  3. 3Washington1 in 2,222
  4. 4Indiana1 in 2,632
  5. 5Kansas1 in 2,703
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 2,778
  7. 7Utah1 in 2,778
  8. 8Missouri1 in 2,857

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Marceline is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 27% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Marceline around the world

Where Marceline 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
    2013–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,603
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024

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

Notable people named Marceline

People whose public names include Marceline, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marceline in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marceline. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marcelina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marceline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#424
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 546
Best rank ever
#424
2025
Peak year
2025
733 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,738
Count in 2025
733

Names similar to Marceline

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

MartineMarcellineMargarettMarineMarlineMaryellenMarcelinaMargaretteMarleighMaribethMarcineMarcelleMariajoseMaryaliceMariellaMargareteMarielleMarybethMariselaMarlaineMarycatherineMarygraceJackelineMarybelle

Names with a curve like Marceline

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marceline, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MapleElodieMalaniSalemMaizieCloverDreamOakleeNavyPalmerHaisleyAilani

Sibling names for Marceline

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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