Marcellina
Marcellina was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,696 among girls’ names; 299 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marcellina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marcellina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marcellina is “a female given name, variant of Marcelline.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marcellina?
#12,696 among girls’ names, 2025
Marcellina rose from #18,164 in 2015 to #12,696 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 4.4 per million.
20 babies in 1976, the peak
Marcellina peaked in 1976, when 20 girls were given it, #3,473 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,696 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,802 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,527 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,839 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,928 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,164 | 2.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,130 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,922 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,481 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,919 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #14,841 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,391 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,047 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,146 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,737 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,235 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,135 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,834 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,730 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,713 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,595 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,473 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,362 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,896 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,885 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,219 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,713 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,659 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,611 | 6.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,205 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,296 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,072 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,104 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,645 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,359 | 5.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,528 | 5.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,424 | 4.1 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,069 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marcellina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marcellina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marcellina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marcellina, and how old are they?
An estimated 256 Americans named Marcellina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 37 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 376 people named Marcellina (373 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 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.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,641 babies since 1880, Marcellina is the fourth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 799 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marceline | 6,738 | 733 | 2025 |
| Marcelina | 3,419 | 59 | 2024 |
| Marcelline | 1,073 | under 5 | 1928 |
| Marcellina | 299 | 7 | 1976 |
| Marcellene | 112 | under 5 | 1929 |
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 Marcellina
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 Marcellina and names like it
- Compare Marcellina and MarcelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarcellina peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marcellina since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Marcellina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marcellina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.