Marcella

Where Marcella comes from

From Latin Marcella.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marcella
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1922
    Peak, #155
    1,537 babies named Marcella — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #228.
  4. 1952
    Marcella Bella born
    Italian singer
  5. 1953
    Marcella Liburd born
    Kittitian politician
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Marcella Bella · Italian singer, born 1952
  • Marcella Liburd · Kittitian politician, born 1953
  • Marcella Althaus-Reid · Argentine-Scottish theologian, 1952–2009
  • Marcella Detroit · American soprano vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, born 1959
  • Marcella Sembrich · Polish coloratura soprano singer, 1858–1935

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.