Marcelle

Where Marcelle comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Marcelle.

  • Vowel-ended
Marcelle through the years
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1897
    Marcelle Meyer born
    French pianist
  3. 1898
    Marcelle Chantal born
    French actress
  4. 1920
    Peak, #532
    177 babies named Marcelle, the most in any year.
  5. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #861.
  6. 2019
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Marcella.
Namesakes
  • Marcelle Meyer · French pianist, 1897–1958
  • Marcelle Chantal · French actress, 1898–1960
  • Marcelle Tinayre · French writer and journalist, 1870–1948
  • Marcelle Lender · French dancer and singer, 1861–1926
  • Marcelle Barbey-Gampert · Swiss botanist, geologist and climatologist, 1887–1949

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.