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The first name 
Marcello

Marcello is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Marcello is a well-known but special name!

Marcello is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1126 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,125 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Marcello.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Marcello

Marcello -
at home in half of America

The odds that a man or boy named Marcello lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Marcello in 23 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado or Connecticut. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Marcello live in Florida – here, one in 15,488 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 47,127 will turn around if you call his first name Marcello.

Marcello has 8 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.

With eight letters, the name Marcello is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.

Other names with 
M, a, r, c, e, l, l and o

If you take all the letters in the name Marcello – M, a, r, c, e, l, l and o – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Carmello.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Marcello

If your name is Marcello and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Marcello

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marcello, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Rocket

Cat

Elephant

Lion

Lion

Orange

This is how the name Marcello is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Marcello in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Marcello

Marcello

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Marcello

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Marcello is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
A
R
C
E
L
L
O

Have you ever waved the name Marcello

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

M
A
R
C
E
L
L
O

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marcello sounds like this: