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UnisexOrigin: ArabicIn Israel: rare

MarcelIn Hebrew: מרסל · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

Marcel (Hebrew: מרסל) is a unisex name of Arabic origin. 2,052 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1950, with 95 babies.

People in Israel
2,052
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1950
95 babies
USA
—
not in the SSA list

Writing and saying Marcel

In Hebrew letters the name is מרסל, read right to left. Marcel is the Latin spelling recorded in Wikidata; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms.

We have no sourced English explanation of this name yet, so we do not guess one. The Hebrew page has our Hebrew notes when there are any.

Marcel by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Marcel: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Marcel

How do you write Marcel in Hebrew?

Marcel is written מרסל in Hebrew. Hebrew is read right to left.

How many people in Israel are named Marcel?

2,052 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name מרסל: 1,474 women and 578 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Marcel a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 72% of the people named מרסל are women and 28% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.