Meaning not yet researched.
Marcella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 272 in 2025. Its best rank was #155 in 1922.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #155 in 1922; #948 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marcella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#948 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1922, at #155.
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Marcella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 272 girls in 2025. Peak: #155 in 1922 · most girls in one year: 1,537 (1922).
In 2025, 272 US girls were named Marcella, making it the 948th most common girls’ name of the year, up 106 places from #1,054 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 237 girls named Marcella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #155, reached in 1922. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,537. For comparison, it was #1,392 in 2015 and #300 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcella in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 14 babies with the name. In all, 65,836 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 13,455 babies named Marcella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,352 US girls were named Marcella; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 272. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marcella ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #550 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcela (8,955 babies since 1880) and Marcelle (5,921 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marzella, Marsela and Marsella are summarised on this page.
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 Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marzella (528), Marsela (249), Marsella (166), Marcilla (49), Marciela (27), Marciella (20).
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 Marcella 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 19 | #550 | #1,400 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #600 | #907 |
| Indiana | 10 | #636 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #649 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #656 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #675 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #758 | #936 |
| Michigan | 10 | #767 | #816 |
| Virginia | 9 | #813 | #1,165 |
| Illinois | 10 | #898 | #1,584 |
| New York | 17 | #933 | #1,113 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #942 | #587 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #955 | — |
| Florida | 16 | #985 | #1,096 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,037 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,077 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,212 | #1,451 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,235 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,308 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,628 | #2,117 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 272 | #948 | — | — |
| 2024 | 237 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2023 | 230 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 2022 | 216 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2021 | 243 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2019 | 256 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 2018 | 231 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2017 | 228 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 2015 | 170 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2014 | 160 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 2013 | 161 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2012 | 168 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2011 | 172 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2009 | 168 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2008 | 186 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2007 | 184 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2003 | 197 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2002 | 230 | #966 | — | — |
| 2001 | 200 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1999 | 236 | #900 | — | — |
| 1998 | 236 | #895 | — | — |
| 1997 | 223 | #904 | — | — |
| 1996 | 184 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1995 | 197 | #956 | — | — |
| 1994 | 209 | #913 | — | — |
| 1993 | 224 | #869 | — | — |
| 1992 | 280 | #749 | — | — |
| 1991 | 245 | #832 | — | — |
| 1990 | 272 | #759 | — | — |
| 1989 | 224 | #841 | — | — |
| 1988 | 274 | #700 | — | — |
| 1987 | 238 | #757 | 5 | #7,700 |
| 1986 | 281 | #659 | — | — |
| 1985 | 240 | #718 | — | — |
| 1984 | 277 | #637 | 6 | #6,055 |
| 1983 | 286 | #612 | — | — |
| 1982 | 299 | #602 | — | — |
| 1981 | 312 | #591 | — | — |
| 1980 | 356 | #531 | 5 | #6,882 |
| 1979 | 340 | #550 | 6 | #5,797 |
| 1978 | 326 | #544 | — | — |
| 1977 | 296 | #585 | — | — |
| 1976 | 328 | #535 | — | — |
| 1975 | 385 | #477 | — | — |
| 1974 | 372 | #477 | — | — |
| 1973 | 397 | #462 | — | — |
| 1972 | 439 | #437 | 5 | #5,470 |
| 1971 | 497 | #421 | 5 | #5,372 |
| 1970 | 511 | #430 | — | — |
| 1969 | 508 | #430 | — | — |
| 1968 | 528 | #406 | 6 | #3,976 |
| 1967 | 522 | #399 | — | — |
| 1966 | 543 | #393 | — | — |
| 1965 | 587 | #376 | — | — |
| 1964 | 630 | #383 | — | — |
| 1963 | 686 | #364 | — | — |
| 1962 | 670 | #363 | 5 | #4,422 |
| 1961 | 682 | #366 | — | — |
| 1960 | 628 | #379 | — | — |
| 1959 | 611 | #382 | — | — |
| 1958 | 656 | #361 | 6 | #3,787 |
| 1957 | 636 | #359 | 5 | #4,336 |
| 1956 | 673 | #337 | — | — |
| 1955 | 650 | #334 | — | — |
| 1954 | 694 | #320 | 7 | #3,342 |
| 1953 | 651 | #321 | 5 | #4,155 |
| 1952 | 679 | #310 | — | — |
| 1951 | 693 | #298 | — | — |
| 1950 | 673 | #300 | — | — |
| 1949 | 678 | #298 | — | — |
| 1948 | 657 | #298 | 5 | #3,995 |
| 1947 | 720 | #290 | — | — |
| 1946 | 660 | #288 | — | — |
| 1945 | 587 | #287 | 5 | #3,604 |
| 1944 | 638 | #274 | — | — |
| 1943 | 695 | #266 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 1942 | 648 | #273 | — | — |
| 1941 | 678 | #248 | — | — |
| 1940 | 715 | #237 | — | — |
| 1939 | 634 | #249 | 5 | #3,790 |
| 1938 | 653 | #247 | 8 | #2,788 |
| 1937 | 664 | #241 | 6 | #3,381 |
| 1936 | 673 | #240 | — | — |
| 1935 | 737 | #228 | 6 | #3,505 |
| 1934 | 800 | #219 | — | — |
| 1933 | 817 | #212 | — | — |
| 1932 | 943 | #195 | — | — |
| 1931 | 959 | #189 | 5 | #4,130 |
| 1930 | 1,035 | #186 | 10 | #2,719 |
| 1929 | 1,035 | #189 | 9 | #2,889 |
| 1928 | 1,194 | #174 | 9 | #2,985 |
| 1927 | 1,154 | #182 | 5 | #4,571 |
| 1926 | 1,185 | #177 | 12 | #2,507 |
| 1925 | 1,407 | #167 | 6 | #4,019 |
| 1924 | 1,476 | #164 | 5 | #4,733 |
| 1923 | 1,503 | #158 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,537 | #155 | 5 | #4,710 |
| 1921 | 1,502 | #159 | 7 | #3,747 |
| 1920 | 1,404 | #161 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,266 | #171 | 5 | #4,557 |
| 1918 | 1,343 | #163 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,133 | #175 | 8 | #3,104 |
| 1916 | 1,002 | #182 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 1915 | 905 | #186 | — | — |
| 1914 | 729 | #183 | 9 | #2,384 |
| 1913 | 590 | #189 | 5 | #3,097 |
| 1912 | 490 | #197 | 5 | #2,773 |
| 1911 | 327 | #217 | 6 | #1,669 |
| 1910 | 295 | #219 | — | — |
| 1909 | 266 | #215 | — | — |
| 1908 | 248 | #216 | — | — |
| 1907 | 203 | #231 | — | — |
| 1906 | 182 | #238 | — | — |
| 1905 | 175 | #239 | — | — |
| 1904 | 146 | #261 | — | — |
| 1903 | 149 | #248 | — | — |
| 1902 | 145 | #260 | — | — |
| 1901 | 123 | #264 | — | — |
| 1900 | 125 | #296 | — | — |
| 1899 | 123 | #256 | — | — |
| 1898 | 106 | #300 | — | — |
| 1897 | 77 | #336 | — | — |
| 1896 | 79 | #328 | — | — |
| 1895 | 71 | #338 | — | — |
| 1894 | 64 | #346 | — | — |
| 1893 | 57 | #357 | — | — |
| 1892 | 42 | #411 | — | — |
| 1891 | 44 | #381 | — | — |
| 1890 | 43 | #382 | — | — |
| 1889 | 37 | #404 | — | — |
| 1888 | 33 | #436 | — | — |
| 1887 | 25 | #455 | — | — |
| 1886 | 18 | #534 | — | — |
| 1885 | 27 | #399 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #493 | — | — |
| 1883 | 19 | #446 | — | — |
| 1882 | 21 | #396 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #567 | — | — |
| 1880 | 14 | #461 | — | — |
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).