Maricella
Maricella was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,041 among girls’ names; 1,724 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Maricella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 22 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maricella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maricella?
#6,041 among girls’ names, 2025
Maricella fell from #5,238 in 2015 to #6,041 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 12.4 per million.
57 babies in 1998, the peak
Maricella peaked in 1998, when 57 girls were given it, #2,443 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,041 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,760 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,501 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,170 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,792 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,313 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,214 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,419 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,699 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,853 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,238 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,620 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,396 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,476 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,666 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,729 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,484 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,883 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,761 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,754 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,907 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,538 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,698 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,558 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,600 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,703 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,683 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,443 | 32.3 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,960 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,269 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,328 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,343 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,797 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,316 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,762 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,045 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,961 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,126 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,884 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,883 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,795 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,034 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,501 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,269 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,112 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,573 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,898 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,545 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,130 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,834 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,440 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,588 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,079 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,485 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,318 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,977 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,745 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,545 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,841 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,117 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,662 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,192 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,945 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,933 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,717 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,837 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,873 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,090 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,693 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,433 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,096 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,737 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maricella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maricella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maricella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maricella, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,724 Americans ever recorded as Maricella. The median Maricella alive today is 33 years old; half are between 22 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,830 people named Maricella (1,823 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,595 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 88 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 349 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 503 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 507 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 215 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Maricella born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,628 | 3.5× |
Where Maricella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maricella is most over-represented in Texas: since 1949 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maricella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Maricella?
Maricella is a less common spelling of Maricela: SSA has recorded 1,724 Maricella and 13,133 Maricela since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 96,015 babies since 1880, Maricella is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 521 babies (3.8%), again the fifth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maricella
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 Maricella and names like it
- Compare Maricella and MaricelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaricella peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maricella since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Maricella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maricella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.