Marchelle

Girls' name

Variant of Marcella

Marchelle has been given to 1,643 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1963, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Marchelle, 2016

1 in 459,000

Marchelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marchelle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marcella

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marchelle means

Marchelle is a variant of Marcella.

Origin, language, and formation

Marchelle is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcella.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,643 girls were recorded with the name Marchelle between 1947 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 64 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,401 in 1963.

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 Marchelle?

Marchelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 459,000; 8 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 221,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,942 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marchelle 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 2016 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 317,942 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marchelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marchelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marchelle was born before 1971 — so the typical Marchelle is around 54 today.

Median birth year: 1971; About 54 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,627; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (487).

Is Marchelle 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 1963 (64)
Years since peak: 62; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,401; 1963

Spellings of Marchelle

Marchelle is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 86.0% against Marchelle's 0.17%.

Michelle86.0%816,510
Marcella6.9%65,614
Rachelle3.6%33,933
Marcelle0.57%5,414
Marielle0.48%4,530
Mechelle0.46%4,386
Machelle0.33%3,178
Lachelle0.26%2,442

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 Marchelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Marchelle was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 537,192 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Michigan1 in 100,000
2Alabama1 in —
3California1 in —
4Florida1 in —
5Illinois1 in —
6Indiana1 in —
7Missouri1 in —
8North Carolina1 in —

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

Marchelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,401; 1963
Peak year: 1963; 64 that year
First recorded: 1947
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 1,643
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marchelle

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

Sibling names for Marchelle

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

Jonna Edie Pennie Nannette Alesia Lolita Lanette Zina

For a brother

Greggory Berry Chet Rob Richie Vince Kennedy Tod

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