Marella
Marella was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,597 among girls’ names; 474 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marella?
#10,597 among girls’ names, 2025
Marella entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,597 in 2025.
17 babies in 1970, the peak
Marella peaked in 1970, when 17 girls were given it, #3,660 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,597 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,987 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,378 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,169 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,035 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,311 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,029 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,579 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,449 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,892 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,037 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,239 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,340 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,566 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,800 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,974 | 4.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,752 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,205 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,154 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,303 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,839 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,621 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,914 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,287 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,690 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,332 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,888 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,466 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,914 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,419 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,222 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,157 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,791 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,247 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,208 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,734 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,016 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,367 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,660 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,174 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,439 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,270 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,627 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,496 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,759 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,708 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,599 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,276 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,905 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,074 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,727 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,797 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,408 | 3.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,741 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,671 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,612 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,647 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,218 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,315 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,801 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,742 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,123 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marella, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Marella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 12 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Marella (522 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,535 babies since 1880, Marella is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 750 babies (1.2%), again the eighth most given.
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 Marella and names like it
- Compare Marella and MarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarella peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Marella.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marella alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.