Maricela — #3048 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Maricela

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,012 babies named Maricela between 1944 and 2024, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maricela currently holds the #3048 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 437 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maricela performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 3,083 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Maricela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,364 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Maricela in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maricela 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 13,012 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.