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Around the globe, Marechal (Marechal , Maréchal ) is a rare dominantly masculine, but uncommonly girly given name. The first name Marechal is habitual in Cameroon, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Belgium, where it is a rare epicene name, and France, where it is a very rare unisex name. Much more prevalently, Marechal is the last name as well as the forename.
Marechal is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Maréchal Hulot , the Honoré de Balzac character, Les Chouans and Maréchal Marmont , the operatic character in the opera L'Aiglon by Jacques Ibert.