Marcelina — #2742 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Marcelina

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,360 babies named Marcelina between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marcelina currently holds the #2742 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marcelina performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 379 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Marcelina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 776 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Marcelina in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marcelina 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 3,360 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.