Marcelia
Marcelia was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marcelia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,641, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1970, the peak
Marcelia peaked in 1970, when 8 girls were given it, #6,128 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,641 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,537 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,306 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,200 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,213 | 3.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,283 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,732 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,736 | 3.6 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,214 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,078 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 8 | #6,128 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,140 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,945 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,188 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,705 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,295 | 3.2 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,774 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,095 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,311 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,276 | 5.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,751 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,739 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 97 Americans named Marcelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 269 people named Marcelia (268 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 96,151 babies since 1880, Marcelia is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 521 babies recorded by SSA was a Marcelia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Marcelia and names like it
- Compare Marcelia and MarcellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarcelia peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Marcelia.
- Names starting with MMost given first.