Meaning not yet researched.
Marcela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 136 in 2025. Its best rank was #947 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #947 in 1991; #1,554 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marcela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,554 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #947.
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Marcela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 136 girls in 2025. Peak: #947 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 210 (1999).
In 2025, 136 US girls were named Marcela, making it the 1,554th most common girls’ name of the year, down 76 places from #1,478 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 148 girls named Marcela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #947, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 210, in 1999. For comparison, it was #1,958 in 2015 and #4,575 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcela in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 9 babies. In all, 8,955 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,802 babies named Marcela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,286 US girls were named Marcela; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marcela ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #902 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcella (65,836 babies since 1880) and Marcelle (5,921 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Polish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marcela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 5 | #902 | — |
| Texas | 31 | #936 | #1,345 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,157 | #704 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,289 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,300 | #2,257 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,705 | #1,683 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 2023 | 145 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2015 | 103 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2009 | 137 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 2008 | 175 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 2007 | 163 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 2005 | 180 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2004 | 206 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2003 | 201 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2002 | 178 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 2000 | 164 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1999 | 210 | #984 | — | — |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1996 | 183 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1994 | 181 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1993 | 159 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1992 | 194 | #986 | — | — |
| 1991 | 201 | #947 | — | — |
| 1990 | 171 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1989 | 163 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1988 | 156 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1987 | 145 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1986 | 143 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1985 | 142 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1984 | 127 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1983 | 104 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1982 | 142 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1981 | 140 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1980 | 131 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1979 | 123 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1978 | 125 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1977 | 118 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1976 | 100 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1975 | 100 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1970 | 84 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1968 | 64 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,505 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).