Marcellina

Where Marcellina comes from

The dictionaries list Marcellina as a given name — a female given name, variant of Marcelline — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,795 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #3,407
    20 babies named Marcellina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,652.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Marcelline.
Namesakes

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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.