Marcèl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marcèl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Marcellus, diminutive of Marcus.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 397(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 462
- DEGermany≈1 in 487
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marcèl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #986 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 397 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marcel in FR France, DE Germany, PL Poland and 2 more and Marsel in HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Marcellus, diminutive of Marcus.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marcèl counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #99 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 487 | listed | Marcel | 276 |
| PL Poland | #221 | 82,940 | 1 in 462 | 83K | Marcel | 119 |
| FR France | #89 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 959 | 471K | Marcel | 365 |
| HU Hungary | — | 25,793as Marcell | 1 in 379 | 26K | Marsel | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | #11 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | 59 | Marcel | 173 |
| CZ Czechia | #172 | 17,390 | 1 in 615 | 17K | Marcel | 120 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Félix Castanb. 1920FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer and poet in Occitan language (1920-2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marcèl mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Marcellus, diminutive of Marcus. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Marcèl a male or female name?
- Marcèl is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Marcèl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Marcèl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcel.
- How common is the name Marcèl?
- In Poland, the national register counted 82,940 people named Marcèl in 2026, about 1 in 462 residents.
- How common is Marcèl compared with other names?
- In Germany, Marcèl is the 99th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marc%C3%A8lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marcèl” — the 99th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.