Marcelyn
Marcelyn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Marcelyn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Marcelyn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Marcelyn
Marcelyn first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1915, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1928: 33 births, good for #1,338 nationwide. About 24% of every Marcelyn on record arrived during the 1930s, its defining decade. Marcelyn last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 709 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Marcelyn
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About the name Marcelyn
Marcelyn is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1915 and has accumulated 709 births in the dataset. Marcelyn's peak popularity came in 1928 when it ranked #1,338. Use the chart and map above to compare Marcelyn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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