Marbella
Marbella was given to 162 girls in 2025, #1,364 among girls’ names; 2,467 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Marbella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marbella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marbella?
#1,364 among girls’ names, 2025
Marbella rose from #2,334 in 2015 to #1,364 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.10 per 1,000.
162 babies in 2025, the peak
Marbella peaked in 2025, when 162 girls were given it, #1,364 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 104 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 104 | #1,918 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,957 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,185 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,225 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,738 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,392 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,670 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,452 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,512 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 80 | #2,334 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,507 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,352 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,278 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,655 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,926 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,230 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,742 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,157 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,220 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,985 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,793 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,512 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,179 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,464 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,841 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,879 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,788 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,718 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,195 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,603 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,405 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,942 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,380 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,963 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,485 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,350 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,573 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,397 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,659 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,590 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,373 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,156 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,434 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,613 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,420 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,077 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marbella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marbella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marbella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marbella, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,467 Americans ever recorded as Marbella. The median Marbella alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,045 people named Marbella (3,041 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 79 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 345 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 934 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Marbella born?
The states with the most babies named Marbella are California, Texas and Arizona, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 56 | #581 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 31 | #935 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 13 | #536 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,058 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,381 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,704 | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #879 | 0.1× |
Where Marbella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marbella is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marbella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,223 babies since 1880, Marbella is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 256 babies (63%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marbella
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marbella and names like it
- Compare Marbella and MarybelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMarbella peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marbella since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Marbella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marbella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.