Meaning not yet researched.
Marisela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #495 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #495 in 1985; #5,055 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marisela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,055 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #495.
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Marisela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #495 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 410 (1985).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Marisela, making it the 5,055th most common girls’ name of the year, down 794 places from #4,261 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 34 girls named Marisela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #495, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 410. For comparison, it was #2,876 in 2015 and #2,992 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marisela in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 12 babies. In all, 10,338 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,649 babies named Marisela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 363 US girls were named Marisela; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maricela (13,133 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.
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 Marisela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,261 | — | — |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,851 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,056 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2001 | 151 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2000 | 182 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1998 | 175 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1997 | 196 | #994 | — | — |
| 1996 | 218 | #903 | — | — |
| 1995 | 199 | #947 | — | — |
| 1994 | 236 | #847 | 5 | #9,728 |
| 1993 | 247 | #810 | — | — |
| 1992 | 313 | #691 | — | — |
| 1991 | 315 | #680 | — | — |
| 1990 | 365 | #617 | — | — |
| 1989 | 369 | #591 | 8 | #6,007 |
| 1988 | 310 | #641 | — | — |
| 1987 | 311 | #621 | — | — |
| 1986 | 336 | #577 | — | — |
| 1985 | 410 | #495 | 8 | #5,000 |
| 1984 | 174 | #874 | — | — |
| 1983 | 152 | #965 | — | — |
| 1982 | 144 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1981 | 191 | #827 | — | — |
| 1980 | 236 | #712 | — | — |
| 1979 | 256 | #674 | — | — |
| 1978 | 221 | #716 | 8 | #4,417 |
| 1977 | 278 | #609 | — | — |
| 1976 | 285 | #576 | — | — |
| 1975 | 195 | #740 | — | — |
| 1974 | 208 | #705 | — | — |
| 1973 | 185 | #750 | — | — |
| 1972 | 149 | #865 | — | — |
| 1971 | 162 | #847 | — | — |
| 1970 | 149 | #889 | — | — |
| 1969 | 118 | #997 | — | — |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1966 | 90 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1965 | 83 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1963 | 61 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1962 | 67 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,812 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,692 | — | — |
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).