Maricela
#2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 437 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,077since 1944
Maricela over time
Rank among girls' names. Maricela has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,691 | 64 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,789 | 61 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,610 | 66 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,816 | 60 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,446 | 75 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,001 | 57 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 77 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,047 | 94 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,124 | 90 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,077 | 95 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,687 | 132 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,480 | 157 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,342 | 173 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,479 | 142 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,329 | 160 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,375 | 146 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,243 | 160 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,200 | 170 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,142 | 178 | — | |
| 1999 | #943 | 222 | — | |
| 1998 | #919 | 228 | — | |
| 1997 | #946 | 210 | — | |
| 1996 | #816 | 249 | — | |
| 1995 | #876 | 218 | — | |
| 1994 | #775 | 262 | — | |
| 1993 | #812 | 246 | — | |
| 1992 | #682 | 318 | — | |
| 1991 | #663 | 328 | — | |
| 1990 | #581 | 399 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #633 | 331 | — | |
| 1988 | #614 | 325 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #616 | 313 | — | |
| 1986 | #582 | 332 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #595 | 323 | — | |
| 1984 | #741 | 220 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #770 | 207 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #698 | 251 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #638 | 278 | — | |
| 1980 | #566 | 328 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #529 | 360 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #462 | 425 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #453 | 437 | — | |
| 1976 | #468 | 405 | — | |
| 1975 | #569 | 291 | — | |
| 1974 | #561 | 291 | — | |
| 1973 | #592 | 265 | — | |
| 1972 | #655 | 232 | — | |
| 1971 | #718 | 211 | — | |
| 1970 | #827 | 166 | — | |
| 1969 | #748 | 183 | — | |
| 1968 | #868 | 139 | — | |
| 1967 | #788 | 159 | — | |
| 1966 | #913 | 122 | — | |
| 1965 | #856 | 137 | — | |
| 1964 | #977 | 118 | — | |
| 1963 | #940 | 126 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,121 | 94 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,204 | 84 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,147 | 90 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,450 | 55 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,395 | 58 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,531 | 49 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,480 | 51 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,371 | 53 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,518 | 44 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,410 | 48 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,746 | 32 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,637 | 34 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,794 | 28 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,564 | 35 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,530 | 16 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,598 | 12 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maricela! It came in at #2,946, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1946, when fewer than 14 girls a year got the name.
Where Maricela is popular in 1966
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#264 · 1 in 1,392
- California#466 · 1 in 3,342
Best ever in a state: #126 in California, 1976.
Show every state
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| Texas | #264 | 66 | 1 in 1,392 |
| California | #466 | 46 | 1 in 3,342 |
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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 Maricela
- 356 spots since 2024 (#3,047 → #2,691)
- 530 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #2,691)
- 310 spots since 2015 (#3,001 → #2,691)
- Biggest jump: 181 spots in 1963 (#1,121 → #940)
- Biggest drop: 199 spots in 2000 (#943 → #1,142)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1977 at #453 (437 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1963–1999
- Highest: 1 in 3,508 girls born in 1977 were named Maricela (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.6% of all girls named Maricela (3,083) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 101 | #1,564 (1949) | #2,494 |
| 1950s | 452 | #1,371 (1955) | #1,533 |
| 1960s | 1,252 | #748 (1969) | #956 |
| 1970s | 3,083 | #453 (1977) | #583 |
| 1980s | 2,908 | #566 (1980) | #645 |
| 1990s | 2,680 | #581 (1990) | #801 |
| 2000s | 1,543 | #1,142 (2000) | #1,404 |
| 2010s | 737 | #2,047 (2012) | #2,517 |
| 2020s | 321 | #2,691 (2025) | #3,067 |
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.
Maricela in 1966
Top girls' names in 1966
More about 1966
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1,692,177 girls got a published name in 1966; 1 in 13,870 of them was named Maricela, which outranked 88.0% of the 7,624 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #910Dinah123
- #910Kevin123
- #910Tamala123
- #913Maricela122
- #913Annetta122
- #913Leesa122
- #913Marni122
- #918Aleta121
- #918Charisse121
- #918Gigi121
Tied with 4 names at #913; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.