Boy name origins & meanings
- French : Little hammer
- Latin : Martial, warlike
- Latin : Warlike; hammer; defender
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- French, also Hungarian : from the personal name Marcel (Latin Marcellus, a diminutive of Marcus (see Mark 1), which was borne by a 3rd-century missionary to Gaul who was martyred at Bourges with his companion Anastasius).
