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Marcelino

#1,649 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Marcellinus

Marcelino has been given to 7,476 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #1,649 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Marcelino, 2025

1 in 32,500

Marcelino over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marcelino: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Marcellinus

Spanish

What Marcelino means

Marcelino is a form of Marcellinus.

Origin, language, and formation

Marcelino is used in Cebuano and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcellinus, Mārcellus and Mārcus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Marcelino is pronounced /maɾθeˈlino/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,476 boys were recorded with the name Marcelino between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2006; its best national rank was #831 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,629 in 2020 to #1,649 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,536 in 2015 to #1,649 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marcelino?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,500
102 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,649
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,530 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marcelino 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,530 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marcelino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcelinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marcelino was born before 1986 — so the typical Marcelino is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
13.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,978
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 13.9% of all recorded uses (1,036).

Is Marcelino 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
−3
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−20
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−113
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.5%
Peak was 2006 (130)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#831
1929

Spellings of Marcelino

Marcelino is not the most common spelling — Marcelo is, with 48.4% against Marcelino's 27.4%.

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 Marcelino is used

Across 2016–2025, Marcelino was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 16,580 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,692
  2. 2Michigan1 in 11,111
  3. 3Texas1 in 11,111
  4. 4Arizona1 in 20,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Marcelino around the world

Where Marcelino 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    1920–2025
    #1,506
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marcelino

People whose public names include Marcelino, 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.

Marcelino in other languages

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

MarceloMarcelloMarcellinoMarceliMarcel·líMarcelinho

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

Marcelino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,649
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 20
Best rank ever
#831
1929
Peak year
2006
130 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,476
Count in 2025
102

Names similar to Marcelino

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

MarinoMartinoMarcellusMargaritoMarcelloMarquiseMarcellinoMarquesValentinoMarshawnMarquezMarianoMarshalMarcellMarselinoMarkellMarkeithMarceloMartaviusCelestinoMarquellMarqueseMartaviousMarciano

Names with a curve like Marcelino

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

GenaroLucioLinoReyesAbelardoIsidroMauroFedericoFidelBernardoCaesarMarshal

Sibling names for Marcelino

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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