Marcellino

Boys' name

Form of Marcellinus

Marcellino has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Marcellino, 2022

1 in 376,000

Marcellino over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marcellino: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Marcellinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marcellino means

Marcellino is a form of Marcellinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marcellino is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mar.t͡ʃel.ˈli.no/ for Marcellino.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcellinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 299 boys were recorded with the name Marcellino between 1917 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,824 in 1961.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Marcellino?

Marcellino had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 376,000; 9 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only: 1 in 194,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 260,760 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marcellino 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 2022 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 260,760 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marcellino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcellinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marcellino was born before 1994 — so the typical Marcellino is around 31 today.

Median birth year: 1994; About 31 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 44.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 267; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Marcellino 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,824; 1961

Spellings of Marcellino

Marcellino is not the most common spelling — Marcelino is, with 52.0% against Marcellino's 2.1%.

Marcelino52.0%7,476
Marcello45.9%6,608
Marcellino2.1%299

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 Marcellino is used

Across 1910–2025, Marcellino was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

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. Marcellino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marcellino around the world

Where Marcellino 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.

France
1958–2025
#4,219
in 2025
Canada
2018–2018
#2,905
in 2018

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marcellino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,824; 1961
Peak year: 2015; 11 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 299
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marcellino

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

Sibling names for Marcellino

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

For a sister

Aliah Jessa Coraline Alannah Arden Averi Karleigh Honesty

For a brother

Caesar Taj Crosby Kolten Immanuel Raylan Emmet Aarav

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