Marcelino

Where Marcelino comes from

Marcelino hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1856
    Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo born
    Spanish scholar
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,031 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1929
    Peak, #826
    62 babies named Marcelino — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1940
    Marcelino Martínez born
    Spanish footballer
  5. 1942
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,298.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo · Spanish scholar, 1856–1912
  • Marcelino Martínez · Spanish footballer, born 1940
  • Marcelino García Toral · Spanish football player/manager, born 1965
  • Marcelino Júnior Lopes Arruda · Brazilian association football player, born 1989
  • Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola · Spanish archaeologist, 1831–1888

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.