Marcela

Where Marcela comes from

Marcela hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,439 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Marcela Lagarde born
    Mexican academic, author, researcher, anthropologist, feminist activist and politician
  3. 1979
    Marcela Bovio born
    Mexican metal artist
  4. 1991
    Peak, #946
    201 babies named Marcela — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marcela Bovio · Mexican metal artist, born 1979
  • Marcela Lagarde · Mexican academic, author, researcher, anthropologist, feminist activist and politician, born 1948
  • Marcela Iacub · Argentine writer, academic and jurist, born 1964
  • Marcela Kloosterboer · Argentine actress, born 1983
  • Marcela Topor · Romanian journalist, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.