Marcela
#1,548 for girls in 2025, 136 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 201 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,955since 1908
Marcela over time
Rank among girls' names. Marcela has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,548 | 136 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 |
| 2023 | #1,493 | 145 |
| 2022 | #1,782 | 115 |
| 2021 | #1,622 | 129 |
| 2020 | #1,849 | 105 |
| 2019 | #1,528 | 141 |
| 2018 | #1,616 | 132 |
| 2017 | #1,876 | 108 |
| 2016 | #1,684 | 127 |
| 2015 | #1,950 | 103 |
| 2014 | #1,818 | 112 |
| 2013 | #1,792 | 114 |
| 2012 | #1,733 | 119 |
| 2011 | #1,829 | 110 |
| 2010 | #1,713 | 122 |
| 2009 | #1,629 | 137 |
| 2008 | #1,374 | 175 |
| 2007 | #1,445 | 163 |
| 2006 | #1,335 | 174 |
| 2005 | #1,255 | 180 |
| 2004 | #1,107 | 206 |
| 2003 | #1,094 | 201 |
| 2002 | #1,156 | 178 |
| 2001 | #1,066 | 199 |
| 2000 | #1,210 | 164 |
| 1999 | #983 | 210 |
| 1998 | #1,081 | 179 |
| 1997 | #1,225 | 146 |
| 1996 | #1,020 | 183 |
| 1995 | #1,023 | 178 |
| 1994 | #1,023 | 181 |
| 1993 | #1,126 | 159 |
| 1992 | #982 | 194 |
| 1991 | #946 | 201 |
| 1990 | #1,046 | 171 |
| 1989 | #1,048 | 163 |
| 1988 | #1,033 | 156 |
| 1987 | #1,058 | 145 |
| 1986 | #1,055 | 143 |
| 1985 | #1,046 | 142 |
| 1984 | #1,091 | 127 |
| 1983 | #1,220 | 104 |
| 1982 | #1,030 | 142 |
| 1981 | #1,025 | 140 |
| 1980 | #1,077 | 131 |
| 1979 | #1,104 | 123 |
| 1978 | #1,063 | 125 |
| 1977 | #1,097 | 118 |
| 1976 | #1,154 | 100 |
| 1975 | #1,155 | 100 |
| 1974 | #1,143 | 101 |
| 1973 | #1,200 | 89 |
| 1972 | #1,364 | 73 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 62 |
| 1970 | #1,285 | 84 |
| 1969 | #1,667 | 52 |
| 1968 | #1,406 | 64 |
| 1967 | #1,617 | 49 |
| 1966 | #1,548 | 52 |
| 1965 | #2,684 | 21 |
| 1964 | #2,348 | 27 |
| 1963 | #1,894 | 38 |
| 1962 | #1,708 | 44 |
| 1961 | #2,299 | 27 |
| 1960 | #1,953 | 34 |
| 1959 | #2,869 | 17 |
| 1958 | #2,167 | 27 |
| 1957 | #2,823 | 17 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 |
| 1952 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 |
| 1947 | #2,354 | 18 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | #2,096 | 16 |
| 1940 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 |
| 1934 | #1,913 | 17 |
| 1933 | #1,773 | 19 |
| 1932 | #2,365 | 13 |
| 1931 | #2,105 | 15 |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 |
| 1929 | #1,642 | 23 |
| 1928 | #2,194 | 16 |
| 1927 | #2,095 | 18 |
| 1926 | #2,474 | 14 |
| 1925 | #1,847 | 22 |
| 1924 | #1,612 | 28 |
| 1923 | #2,465 | 14 |
| 1922 | #1,785 | 23 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
| 1920 | #2,357 | 15 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 |
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| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
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| 1908 | #1,439 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marcela! It came in at #1,439, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1909–1914, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Marcela is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#619 · 1 in 3,211
- Texas#1,064 · 1 in 6,692
- California#1,154 · 1 in 7,835
Best ever in a state: #271 in Arizona, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #619 | 27 | 1 in 3,211 |
| Texas | #1,064 | 25 | 1 in 6,692 |
| California | #1,154 | 26 | 1 in 7,835 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Marcela
- 76 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,548)
- 301 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #1,548)
- 402 spots since 2015 (#1,950 → #1,548)
- Biggest jump: 100 spots in 1991 (#1,046 → #946)
- Biggest drop: 227 spots in 2000 (#983 → #1,210)
- Debuted 1908
- Peaked 1991 at #946 (201 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1991–1992
- Highest: 1 in 8,447 girls born in 1999 were named Marcela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,818 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #946 in 1991, was only 1 in 9,328 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.1% of all girls named Marcela (1,802) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 9 | #1,439 (1908) | #1,439 |
| 1910s | 38 | #2,376 (1918) | #3,089 |
| 1920s | 182 | #1,612 (1924) | #2,187 |
| 1930s | 129 | #1,773 (1933) | #2,476 |
| 1940s | 120 | #2,096 (1941) | #2,876 |
| 1950s | 156 | #2,167 (1958) | #3,023 |
| 1960s | 408 | #1,406 (1968) | #1,912 |
| 1970s | 975 | #1,063 (1978) | #1,213 |
| 1980s | 1,393 | #1,025 (1981) | #1,068 |
| 1990s | 1,802 | #946 (1991) | #1,046 |
| 2000s | 1,777 | #1,066 (2001) | #1,267 |
| 2010s | 1,188 | #1,528 (2019) | #1,754 |
| 2020s | 778 | #1,472 (2024) | #1,628 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marcela in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 13,953 of them was named Marcela, which outranked 91.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,667Ripley128
- #1,667Shania128
- #1,667Yaneli128
- #1,684Marcela127
- #1,684Jaqueline127
- #1,684Josslyn127
- #1,684Klara127
- #1,693Alyse126
- #1,693Amarah126
- #1,693Faigy126
Tied with 8 names at #1,684; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.