MEANING & HISTORY
What does Marcelino mean?
Marcelino continues Latin Marcellinus, formed from Marcellus, itself a diminutive of Marcus. Marcus is traditionally associated with Mars, the Roman war god.
The repeated diminutive history explains the name more precisely than treating little warrior as a literal ancient phrase. Marcelino is a full inherited personal name with Christian saint-name history, not merely an informal shortening of Marcelo.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Spanish
- /maɾθeˈlino/
- [maɾ.θeˈli.no]
- /maɾseˈlino/
- [maɾ.seˈli.no]
Mar · ce · li · no4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a male given name from Spanish
Wiktionary: Marcelino (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Latin Mārcellīnus, diminutive of Mārcellus, in turn a diminutive of Mārcus.
a male given name
Wiktionary: Marcelino (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Marcelino
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Marcelino Crisólogo
Filipino writer
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Marcelino Teodoro
Filipino politician
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
16
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
4
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Marcelino Teodoro, Marcelino Crisólogo
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Marcelino in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Marcelino
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Marceliano·Spanish personal name in the Latin Marcellianus tradition
- Marcelina♀Feminine form in the Marcellinus name family
- Marcello♂Italian Marcellus form, originally a Marcus diminutive
- Marcelo♂Form of Marcellus, a diminutive of Marcus
- Adelino·Noble, through Adela
- Angelino♂Familiar form of Angelo or Ángel
- Avelino♂From Saint Andrea Avellino’s Italian place-derived surname
- Manuelito♂God is with us, through the Manuel name family
What rhymes with Marcelino?
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Explore Marcelino further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q19953629 — Marcelino (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Marcelino Teodoro (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q19953629 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Marcelino Crisólogo (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q19953629 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Marcelino (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Marcelino (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Marcelino (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.