Marsel'

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marsel' 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.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 397as Marcel
  • PLPoland1 in 462as 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 Marsel' 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)

≈160,000 named Marcel, est.

#986 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
425 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Russia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarcelLatin(measured from records)
מרסלHebrew(measured from records)
МарселCyrillic(measured from records)
มาร์เซลThai(measured from records)
ΜαρσέλGreek(measured from records)
მარსელGeorgian(measured from records)
마셀Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marsel' 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.

Where Marsel' is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#99≈160,000 est.≈1 in 487listedMarcel276
PL Poland#22182,940as Marcel1 in 46283KMarcel119
FR France#89≈71,000 est.≈1 in 959471KMarcel365
HU Hungary—25,793as Marcell1 in 37926KMarsel3
CH Switzerland#11≈21,000 est.≈1 in 39759Marcel173
CZ Czechia#17217,390as Marcel1 in 61517KMarcel120
RU Russia—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 46K#1,752Marsel'101

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marsel' is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, Belgium

    Also written Marsel, Marşel

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, India, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marsel, Marşel, Màrsél

  • Kazakh given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia

    Languages: Kazakh, Kyrgyz

    Also written Марсель, Marsel, Marseille, Marşel

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Marsel' under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Marsel' a male or female name?
Marsel' 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 Marsel' have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Marcel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Marsel'?
In Poland, the national register counted 82,940 people named Marcel in 2026, about 1 in 462 residents.
How common is Marsel' compared with other names?
In Germany, Marsel' is the 99th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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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, “Marsel'” — the 99th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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