Marchella
Marchella was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marchella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marchella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marchella is “a female given name, variant of Marcella.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marchella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,571, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1969, the peak
Marchella peaked in 1969, when 11 girls were given it, #4,613 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,571 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,539 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,994 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,943 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,201 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,073 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,746 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,281 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,677 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,629 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | #8,016 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,843 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,940 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,130 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,613 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,996 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,432 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,208 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,809 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,663 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,649 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,868 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,683 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,706 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marchella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 164 Americans recorded as Marchella, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marchella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marchella, and how old are they?
An estimated 150 Americans named Marchella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 43 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 220 people named Marchella (208 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,909 babies since 1880, Marchella is the second most given (8.6% of them).
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 Marchella
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 Marchella and names like it
- Compare Marchella and MarchelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarchella peaked in 1969.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Marchella.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marchella alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.