Maricela

Where Maricela comes from

Maricela 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. 1944
    First appearance
    #2,946 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Maricela Contreras Julián born
    Mexican politician
  3. 1977
    Peak, #453
    437 babies named Maricela — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1982
    Maricela Velázquez Sánchez born
    Mexican politician
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #770.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Maricela Contreras Julián · Mexican politician, born 1961
  • Maricela Velázquez Sánchez · Mexican politician, born 1982
  • Maricela Serrano Hernández · Mexican politician, born 1961
  • Maricela Cornejo · American professional boxer, born 1987
  • Maricela Montemayor · Mexican canoeist, born 1991

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.