Marcelí

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Marcelí is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Mārcellī.

  • PLPoland1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 20K
  • 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). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

10,520 people, 2022

Record sources
84 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marceli in BR Brazil, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more.

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)
Derivation of Marcelí: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Marcelí
  1. LatinMārcellī(measured from records)
  2. 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.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Marcelí 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 Marcelí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil10,5201 in 20K12KMarceli84
PL Poland4,9821 in 7.7K5K—3
TZ Tanzania≈400 est.≈1 in 171K—Marceli7
DE Germany≈99 est.≈1 in 839K—Marceli38
US United States≈95 est.≈1 in 3.6MlistedMarceli60
DO Dominican Republic≈38 est.≈1 in 302K—Marceli7
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

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); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Marcelí is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Marceli, Marcéli

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 Marcelí 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

What does the name Marcelí mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Mārcellī. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Marcelí a male or female name?
Marcelí 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.
In which country does Marcelí have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Marcelí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marceli.
Where is Marcelí most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marcelí 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 Marcelí?
In Brazil, the national register counted 10,520 people named Marcelí in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.

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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, “Marcelí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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