Marcelo
About 13,231 American babies have been named Marcelo since 1907, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 398th. About 12,000 Marcelos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Marcelo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,231
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 398th
- Rank in 2025
- 398th
- First recorded
- 1907
How old the living Marcelos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,231 babies given the name since 1907, about 12,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 7,400 of them are children and 320 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Marcelos
- Marcelo Vieira (born 1988)Brazilian association football player
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (born 1948)Portuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal
- Marcelo Brozović (born 1992)Croatian association football player
- Marcelo Bielsa (born 1955)Argentinian association football player and manager
- Marcelo Caetano (1906–1980)Portuguese politician
- Marcelo Salas (born 1974)Chilean footballer
- Marcelo Ríos (born 1975)Chilean tennis player
- Marcelo Martins Moreno (born 1987)Bolivian association football player
People named Marcelo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marcelo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marcelo is most concentrated in Texas (3.8×), Florida (3.1×), California (2.6×), Arizona (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Marcelo peaked:
Marcelo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Marcelo | 385 | 1,183rd |
| England and Wales boys | Marcelo | 172 | 1,683rd |
| Poland boys | Marcelo | 18 birth registrations | 510th |
| Belgium boys | Marcelo | 5 | 1,405th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marcelo: rank by region
In 2024, Marcelo was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Marcelo | 324 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marcelo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Marcelo | 14 | 45 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marcelo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,038 men called Marcelo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soria | Marcelo | 32 | 0.698 | 164 |
| Palencia | Marcelo | 43 | 0.546 | 204 |
| León | Marcelo | 117 | 0.536 | 216 |
| Sevilla | Marcelo | 514 | 0.533 | 180 |
| Ávila | Marcelo | 42 | 0.520 | 203 |
| Cádiz | Marcelo | 315 | 0.508 | 185 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marcelo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.