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Marsel

#5,524 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Marsel has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,524 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Marsel, 2025

1 in 195,000

Marsel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marsel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marsel means

Marsel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Marsel is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 179 boys were recorded with the name Marsel between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,293 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,491 in 2020 to #5,524 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,600 in 2015 to #5,524 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 Marsel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,524
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marsel 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marsel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marsels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marsel was born before 2020 — so the typical Marsel is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
179
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Marsel 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
+47
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,967
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,076
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.0%
Peak was 2023 (25)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,293
2023

Spellings of Marsel

Marsel is not the most common spelling — Manuel is, with 50.2% against Marsel's 0.05%.

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 Marsel is used

Across 1910–2025, Marsel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 378,551 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Marsel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marsel around the world

Where Marsel 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
    2003–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2021
    #5,865
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Marsel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,967
Best rank ever
#4,293
2023
Peak year
2023
25 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
179
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Marsel

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

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Sibling names for Marsel

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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