Marcellinus
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marcellinus is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- GYGuyana1 in 83K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.5K ●
- Sources
- 174 ●
- 1 in 4.2K ◐
across 7 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Marcellino in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 7 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #896 | 4,115△ | 239 rec. | 1 in 4.2K | 4.1K | Marcellinus | 28 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 477 | 755 rec. | — | — | Marcellinus | 29 |
| AU Australia | — | 464 | 528 rec. | — | — | Marcellino | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 394 | 439 rec. | — | listed | Marcellino | 16 |
| US United States | — | 315 | 9.4K rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 861 | Marcellino | 174 |
| DE Germany | — | 161 | 237 rec. | — | 1 | Marcellinus | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | 159 | 183 rec. | — | 1 | Marcellino | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | 141 | 197 rec. | — | 1 | Marcellino | 31 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 61 | 77 rec. | — | — | Marcellinus | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 59 | 11 rec. | — | 27 | Marcellino | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 37 | 28 rec. | — | 10 | Marcellinus | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 32 | 33 rec. | — | — | Marcellino | 2 |
Roughly 4.1K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 4.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian7.4K39%
- English5.1K27%
- Dutch4.5K24%
- Indonesian8665%
- Swahili2601%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 7,442 | 39% |
| English | 5,084 | 27% |
| Dutch | 4,515 | 24% |
| Indonesian | 866 | 5% |
| Swahili | 260 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Marcellinus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., Weiterbildung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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●
- Marcellinusb. 296ITPope and bishop of Rome (tenure 296-304)
- Marcellinus of Gaulb. 300DZbishop of Embrun and saint
- Marcellinus Comesb. 450Roman chronicler
- MarcellinusRoman presbyter (4th century)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 17 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marcellinus?
- We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Marcellinus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marcellinus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.1 thousand people bear Marcellinus in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marcellinus.
- Where is Marcellinus most common?
- Marcellinus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Marcellinus compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Marcellinus is the 896th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Marcellinus a male or female name?
- Marcellinus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Marcellinus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Marcellinus” — the 896th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.