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Marcello

#900 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Marcellus

Marcello has been given to 6,618 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #900 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 265 recorded.

Babies named Marcello, 2025

1 in 12,500

Marcello over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marcello: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Marcellus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marcello means

Marcello is a form of Marcellus.

Origin, language, and formation

Marcello is used in Italian and Portuguese.

Marcello comes through Latin Mārcellus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcellus, Marcel and Marcelo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Marcello is pronounced /marˈt͡ʃɛl.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,608 boys were recorded with the name Marcello between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 265 in 2025; its best national rank was #795 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,161 in 2020 to #900 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,197 in 2015 to #900 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Marcello between 1966 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1966; its best national rank was #7,206 in 1966.

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 Marcello?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,500
265 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,450
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#900
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marcello 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marcello. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcellos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marcello was born before 2006 — so the typical Marcello is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,279
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Choose a decade

2010s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (1,556).

Is Marcello 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
+104
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+261
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+297
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (265)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#795
1981

Spellings of Marcello

Marcello is not the most common spelling — Marcel is, with 26.7% against Marcello's 8.8%.

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 Marcello is used

Across 2016–2025, Marcello was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 9,905 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

223 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 4,348
  2. 2New York1 in 5,263
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 5,882
  4. 4Arizona1 in 7,143
  5. 5Florida1 in 7,143
  6. 6California1 in 7,692
  7. 7Michigan1 in 7,692
  8. 8Texas1 in 9,091

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.

Marcello around the world

Where Marcello 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–2009
    #626
    in 2009
  • France
    1923–2025
    #1,409
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Marcello

People whose public names include Marcello, 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.

Marcello in other languages

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

MelloMarcelMarkelMarceauMarcellMarceloMarcelinoMarcellusMarcellinoMarcèlMarceli

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

Marcello by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#900
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 261
Best rank ever
#795
1981
Peak year
2025
265 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,608
Count in 2025
265

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,206
1966
Peak year
1966
5 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marcello

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

MarquiseMarchelloMarcelinoMarshawnMarquezMarshalMarquesMargaritoMarcellMarkellMarkeithMarcellusMarianoMarquellMarceloMarqueseMarcianoMarquelMartellMarleyMartinezMargaretMarkelMarcial

Names with a curve like Marcello

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

EliezerEleazarRianSladeMenachemFrancoReyMikaelJaiYisroelYaakovKarim

Sibling names for Marcello

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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