Marcellus is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Marcellus isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Marcellus ranks 932. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Marcellus. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Marcellus.
Marcellus is not one of the particularly popular names. In fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1905, where the name Marcellus was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If your name is Marcellus and you were born in the USA in 1905, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Marcellus even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1902, it ranked on position 491 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marcellus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Marcellus has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 331 times by young parents to their newborn children and thus landed on position 706 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular boys' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 331 boys named Marcellus, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Marcellus'.
You may not know anyone named Marcellus, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 33 states are home to men and boys named Marcellus. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Marcellus living in one state or another. If your name is Marcellus and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Virginia, which has the most people named Marcellus relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,760 men and boys their names before you hear Marcellus as an answer just once.
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 nine letters, the name Marcellus is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. 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.
If your name is Marcellus 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marcellus, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Cat
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marcellus
Marcellus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Marcellus sounds like this:
