Marcellino
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Marcello or from Latin Marcellinus, a double diminutive of Marcus (see Mark)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹtʃɛˈɫinoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marcellino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 390K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 27K
- ITItaly≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Marcello or from Latin Marcellinus, a double diminutive of Marcus (see Mark).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marcellino counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Marcellino | 28 |
| US United States | 854 | 1 in 390K | 861 | Marcellino | 200 |
| BR Brazil | 699 | 1 in 303K | 699 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 368 | 1 in 124K | 368 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 441K | listed | Marcellino | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Marcellino | 42 |
| GY Guyana | 28 | 1 in 27K | 28 | Marcellino | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Marcellino | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the hanks-first-names-2001 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marcellino is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pet form of MARCELLO. Feminine form: Marcellina.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, forma ital. de Marcellinus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Valerio Marcellinob. 1536ITVenetian lawyer, philosopher and poet (1536-1602)
- Muzzy Marcellinob. 1912USAmerican musician, whistler
- Fred Marcellinob. 1939USAmerican illustrator and writer (1939-2001)
- Carl Marcellinob. 1942USAmerican politician
- Dennis Marcellinob. 1948USAmerican musician
- Jocko Marcellinob. 1950USAmerican musician
- Raffaele Marcellinob. 1964AUAustralian composer (born 1964)
- Massimiliano Marcellinob. 1970ITeconomist (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
- Giuseppe Marcellinob. 1985ITclassical philologist (1985-)
- Leto MarcellinoITItalian archbishop
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 315 | #28,490 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 30 | #39,799 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #116,443 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 9 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marcellino mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Marcello or from Latin Marcellinus, a double diminutive of Marcus (see Mark). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Marcellino?
- In the etymology graph, Marcelin and Marcellin are forms of the same name in other languages; Celino is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Marcellino?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹtʃɛˈɫinoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Marcellino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Marcellino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcellino.
- Where is Marcellino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marcellino is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marcellino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 854 people named Marcellino in 2010, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Marcellino?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marcellinoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marcellino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.