Marcellous
#6,672 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marcellous has been given to 1,062 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #6,672 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Marcellous, 2025
1 in 255,000
Marcellous over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marcellous?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,672
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marcellous sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marcellous. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marcellouss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marcellous was born before 1993 — so the typical Marcellous is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 21.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 977
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (232).
Is Marcellous 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
- +14
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,516
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,784
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.44×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.1%
- Peak was 1993 (36)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.3% average annual change
Spellings of Marcellous
Marcellous is not the most common spelling — Marcellus is, with 55.6% against Marcellous's 6.1%.
Where Marcellous is used
Across 1910–2025, Marcellous was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,626,817 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Michigan1 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. Marcellous has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marcellous by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marcellous
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marcellous
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.