Marcel
84
Babies in 2024
-65%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 252
-28%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Marcel
Marcel has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 84 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 65% on a decade earlier.
Marcel reached its peak in 2015, when 252 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #223 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 33% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,419 boys have been officially registered with the name Marcel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,966 boys were registered with the name, starting from 239 in 2014 and ending at 84 in 2024.