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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#146 · 1 in 697
- Texas#199 · 1 in 975
- Illinois#213 · 1 in 1,182
- New Mexico#346 · 1 in 1,637
- Arizona#404 · 1 in 2,341
Best ever in a state: #126 in California, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #146 | 220 | 1 in 697 |
| Texas | #199 | 106 | 1 in 975 |
| Illinois | #213 | 60 | 1 in 1,182 |
| New Mexico | #346 | 5 | 1 in 1,637 |
| Arizona | #404 | 7 | 1 in 2,341 |
| New York | #1,070 | 9 | 1 in 10,925 |
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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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 3,604 of them was named Maricela, which outranked 96.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Maricela, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.