Marcela — #1469 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Marcela

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,817 babies named Marcela between 1908 and 2024, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marcela currently holds the #1469 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 210 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marcela performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,802 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Marcela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,625 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Marcela in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marcela in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,817 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.