Meaning not yet researched.
Maricela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #453 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #453 in 1977; #2,712 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maricela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,712 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #453.
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Maricela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #453 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 437 (1977).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Maricela, making it the 2,712th most common girls’ name of the year, up 358 places from #3,070 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 53 girls named Maricela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #453, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 437. For comparison, it was #3,017 in 2015 and #1,822 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maricela in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 10 babies. In all, 13,133 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3,095 babies named Maricela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 570 US girls were named Maricela; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maricela ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,296 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marisela (10,338 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maricella, Marisella and Marizela 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maricella (1,724), Marisella (487), Marizela (50), Marycela (5).
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 Maricela 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,296 | #2,150 |
| California | 13 | #1,711 | #1,699 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 2016 | 75 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2007 | 157 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 2002 | 160 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 2001 | 170 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2000 | 178 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1999 | 222 | #944 | — | — |
| 1998 | 228 | #919 | — | — |
| 1997 | 210 | #948 | — | — |
| 1996 | 249 | #818 | — | — |
| 1995 | 218 | #876 | — | — |
| 1994 | 262 | #781 | — | — |
| 1993 | 246 | #815 | — | — |
| 1992 | 318 | #682 | — | — |
| 1991 | 328 | #663 | — | — |
| 1990 | 399 | #581 | 5 | #9,000 |
| 1989 | 331 | #634 | — | — |
| 1988 | 325 | #615 | 8 | #5,531 |
| 1987 | 313 | #618 | — | — |
| 1986 | 332 | #582 | 9 | #4,707 |
| 1985 | 323 | #595 | — | — |
| 1984 | 220 | #742 | 5 | #6,966 |
| 1983 | 207 | #772 | 6 | #5,954 |
| 1982 | 251 | #699 | 5 | #6,991 |
| 1981 | 278 | #639 | — | — |
| 1980 | 328 | #566 | 6 | #5,970 |
| 1979 | 360 | #529 | 7 | #5,170 |
| 1978 | 425 | #462 | 5 | #6,419 |
| 1977 | 437 | #453 | — | — |
| 1976 | 405 | #469 | — | — |
| 1975 | 291 | #569 | — | — |
| 1974 | 291 | #561 | — | — |
| 1973 | 265 | #596 | — | — |
| 1972 | 232 | #657 | — | — |
| 1971 | 211 | #720 | — | — |
| 1970 | 166 | #830 | — | — |
| 1969 | 183 | #750 | — | — |
| 1968 | 139 | #872 | — | — |
| 1967 | 159 | #791 | — | — |
| 1966 | 122 | #915 | — | — |
| 1965 | 137 | #856 | — | — |
| 1964 | 118 | #980 | — | — |
| 1963 | 126 | #941 | — | — |
| 1962 | 94 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1961 | 84 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1960 | 90 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,073 | — | — |
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).