Marceli
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maxsɛʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marceli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Mārcellī.
- BRBrazil1 in 20K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 7.7K
- ISIceland1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,520 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- LatinMārcellī(measured from records)
- LatinMārcellus(inferred from the name graph)via Marcello
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Latin Mārcellī.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marceli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 10,520 | 1 in 20K | 12K | Marceli | 84 |
| PL Poland | 4,982 | 1 in 7.7K | 5K | — | 3 |
| CN China | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Marceli | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Marceli | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 740K | listed | Marceli | 38 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 384K | — | Marceli | 7 |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
10,520 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); the de-munich-vornamen register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Marceli Nenckib. 1847PLPolish chemist (1847–1901)
- Marceli Harasimowiczb. 1859PLPolish painter (1859-1935)
- Marceli Godlewskib. 1865PLRoman Catholic priest from Poland
- Marceli Struszyńskib. 1880PLPolish chemist (1880-1959)
- Marceli Handelsmanb. 1882PLPolish historian (1882-1945)
- Marceli Landsbergb. 1890PLPolish physician (1890-1951)
- Marceli Nowotkob. 1893PLPolish activist (1893-1942)
- Marceli Strzykalskib. 1931PLPolish footballer
- Tomasz Szarotab. 1940PLnot in their usual namePolish historian
- Marceli Kosmanb. 1940PLPolish historian
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,906 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 11K | #853 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.1K | #1,647 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 6.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5K | #232 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5K | #229 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.2K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Marceli mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Mārcellī. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Marceli?
- A machine transcription gives /maxsɛʎi/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Marceli a male or female name?
- Marceli is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Marceli?
- In the etymology graph, Marcelo, Marcel and Marcello are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marceli have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Marceli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marceli.
- Where is Marceli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marceli is densest in Poland — about 1 in 7.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marceli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,520 people named Marceli in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marceli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marceliThe 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, “Marceli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.