Marchel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized spelling of Polish Marczel, a derivative of the personal name Marek
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marchel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 38K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 196K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized spelling of Polish Marczel, a derivative of the personal name Marek.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marchel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Marchel | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Marchel | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 452 | 1 in 38K | 452 | Marchel | 28 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Marchel | 13 |
| US United States | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 341 | Marchel | 128 |
| MD Moldova | 15 | 1 in 224K | 15 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); e-services.md — living population register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Marchel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma dialetal set., redução de Marchello
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In enm, alternative form of marschal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roman Marchelb. 1915PLcorporal of the Polish Army, Warsaw Uprising insurgent
- Henrik Marchelb. 1929SISlovenian painter
- Günter Marchelb. 1963ATAustrian painter
- Andrzej Marchelb. 1964PLPolish association football player
- Jacques MarchelFrench film editor
- Michał MarchelPLPolish cardiologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 341 | #56,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 316 | #63,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 278 | #74,891 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #67,501 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Marchel mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized spelling of Polish Marczel, a derivative of the personal name Marek. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Marchel a male or female name?
- Marchel 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 Marchel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 720 people named Marchel in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marchel.
- Where is Marchel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marchel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marchel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 452 people named Marchel, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marchelThe 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, “Marchel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.