Marcèlle
given name · Latin script
Marcèlle 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: from a feminine form of Marcel. From the 8th century the personal name was popularized in Provence in particular by the cult of St.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 397as Marcel(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 462as Marcel
- DEGermany≈1 in 487as Marcel
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 Marcèlle 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)
- Record sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- 1 in 379 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Marcel, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, as Marcell
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)from a feminine form of Marcel. From the 8th century the personal name was popularized in Provence in particular by the cult of St. Marcelle, who, according to a popular myth, was the servant of Martha of Bethany and traveled with her to Gaul.
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marcèlle 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 | 82,940as Marcel | 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 | 17,390as Marcel | 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marcèlle mean, and where does it come from?
- from a feminine form of Marcel. From the 8th century the personal name was popularized in Provence in particular by the cult of St. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dictionary of American Family Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Marcèlle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Marcel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marcèlle most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Marcèlle itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 379 people named Marcell.
- How common is the name Marcèlle?
- In Poland, the national register counted 82,940 people named Marcel in 2026, about 1 in 462 residents.
- How common is Marcèlle compared with other names?
- In Germany, Marcèlle is the 99th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marc%C3%A8lleThe 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, “Marcèlle” — the 99th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.