Marceline
Top 1000
About Marceline
Balancing femininity, vintage charm, and fantasy nerdiness, Marceline is one to watch. Marceline the Vampire Queen from the 2010-2018 animated TV series Adventure Time brought her elaborate French name back into public consciousness. It re-entered the Top 1000 in 2020, after an 86 year hiatus, and keeps rising. Nicknames Marcie and Marcy are rising in popularity as well. Marceline may appeal to parents who like frilly, traditional, and sophisticated names such as Josephine and Genevieve. Marcella is another variation to consider.
Pronounced mar-suh-LEEN.
As of October 2026, Marceline ranked #424 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #275.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,532 | 143 | 80.1 |
| 2015 | #1,672 | 128 | 71.7 |
| 2016 | #1,532 | 148 | 83.5 |
| 2017 | #1,222 | 197 | 114.1 |
| 2018 | #1,283 | 179 | 105.2 |
| 2019 | #1,064 | 238 | 141.8 |
| 2020 | #969 | 263 | 162.7 |
| 2021 | #785 | 362 | 220.6 |
| 2022 | #677 | 431 | 262.8 |
| 2023 | #590 | 508 | 316.6 |
| 2024 | #505 | 605 | 373.4 |
| 2025 | #424 | 733 | 456.1 |
World rankings
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Marceline on lists
Famous Marcelines
- Marceline Loridan
Ivens, French memoirist and film director
- Marceline Day
American actress
- Marceline Desbordes
Valmore, French poet
- Marceline Miéville
Swiss dentist and politician
- Marceline Baldwin Jones
wife of American cult leader Jim Jones
Marceline in pop culture
- Marceline
character in the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais
- Marceline the Vampire Queen
a character on the animated show "Adventure Time"
- Marceline
character in Andre Gide's "The Immoralist"
- Marceline McAllister
character in "Jason and Marceline" by Jerry Spinelli
- Marceline
Missouri, USA was Walt Disney's hometown