Marisela
Marisela was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,054 among girls’ names; 10,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,900 Americans named Marisela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marisela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marisela?
#5,054 among girls’ names, 2025
Marisela fell from #2,876 in 2015 to #5,054 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 16.2 per million.
418 babies in 1985, the peak
Marisela peaked in 1985, when 418 babies were given it (410 girls, #495 among girls’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,054 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,260 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,095 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,802 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,849 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,055 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,533 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,302 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,122 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,830 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,212 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,995 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,890 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,886 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,471 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,056 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,897 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,906 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,687 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,571 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,512 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,449 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,358 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 151 | #1,288 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 182 | #1,123 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,149 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 175 | #1,102 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 196 | #993 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 218 | #902 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 199 | #944 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 236 | #846 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 247 | #809 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 313 | #691 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 315 | #680 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 365 | #616 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 369 | #590 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 310 | #641 | 0.17 |
| 1987 | 311 | #621 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 336 | #577 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 410 | #495 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 174 | #874 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 152 | #965 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 144 | #1,023 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 191 | #827 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 236 | #712 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 256 | #674 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 221 | #716 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 278 | #609 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 285 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 195 | #740 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 208 | #705 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 185 | #750 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 149 | #865 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 162 | #847 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 149 | #889 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 118 | #997 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,037 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,137 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 90 | #1,118 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 83 | #1,182 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,378 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 61 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 67 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,489 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,972 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,052 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,991 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,778 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,691 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marisela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marisela has been given almost only to girls: 29 boys in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marisela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marisela, and how old are they?
9,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 10,338 Americans ever recorded as Marisela. The median Marisela alive today is 38 years old; half are between 29 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 19,047 people named Marisela (19,014 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,817 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 501 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,630 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 528 |
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 Marisela born?
The states with the most babies named Marisela are California, Texas and Illinois, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 4,009 | #2,411 | 3.1× |
| Texas | 2,813 | #3,632 | 3.3× |
| Illinois | 475 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 443 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 198 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Mexico | 135 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 131 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Marisela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marisela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1945 it was given 3.3 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 Marisela with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,240 babies since 1880, Marisela is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 32 babies (81%), again the 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 Marisela
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 Marisela and names like it
- Compare Marisela and MarisellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarisela peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marisela since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Marisela.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marisela alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.