Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 Marcel
/mar · SEL/
Meaning
“Young warrior”
French masculine form of Marcellus, from the Latin Marcellus meaning young warrior or related to Mars the god of war; one of France's iconic given names.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Elegant and literary; Marcel Proust makes this name permanently distinguished.
The cultural moment.
Consistently in the French top 50; also rising in Germany since 2010.