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Marceli

A Latin name tied to Mars, the god of war: at root it reads as "young warrior". Most Poles have never met one, and today it sits at the far edge of the country's 500 most-given boys' names.

Marceli Pronunciation

Marceli is pronounced mahr-TSE-lee (/marˈt͡sɛli/).

Alive in 2025
4,972
Newborns 2025
43
National rank
#491
Next name day
16 January
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What Marceli means

Where Marceli comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Marceli comes from the Latin Marcellus, a diminutive of Marcus, and both trace back to Mars, the Roman god of war. The name reads as young warrior of Mars, and in Polish it settles into mały wojownik. The martial root sits under a sound that has grown gentler in Polish use.

Poland has carried the name through real lives. Marceli Bacciarelli painted portraits at the court of King Stanisław August Poniatowski in the eighteenth century, and Marceli Nencki became one of Europe's leading physiological chemists in the nineteenth. Neither man swung a sword. The warrior in the name turned into a quieter kind of resolve.

The variant Marcel travels easily across borders, familiar in France and Germany, while Marcelina turns the name toward a daughter. Marceli keeps a name-day on the sixteenth of January, and a boy might hear it read out at the top of a class register. Under the everyday sound stays the old sense: a small warrior of Mars.

When Marceli celebrates name day

Marceli appears 15 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 16 January.

Next name day
16 January
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 128 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Marceli

1 in 4293 men in Poland is named Marceli. 4,972 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #491 among male names.

People with the name Marceli 2019 → 2025
4,972 +41 since 2019
2020 4,950 +19
2021 4,964 +14
2022 4,973 +9
2023 4,979 +6
2024 4,982 +3
2025 4,972 -10

Marceli's popularity over time

43 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #375 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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43 newborns with the name Marceli in 2025
national rank #375 that year

Where Marceli is most popular

Marceli is most popular in Pomeranian, 46% above the national average (39 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+34%) and Masovian (+15%). It is least common in Lubusz and Opole, 78% and 64% below average respectively.

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Marceli as a middle name

Marceli is a first name for 4,972 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3,037, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 151st, between John (3,086) and Klemens (2,885).

As a first name
4,972
As a middle name
3,037
first name 62% middle name 38%
Middle-name ranking men

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