Marsella
Marsella was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 166 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marsella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marsella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,971, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1990, the peak
Marsella peaked in 1990, when 8 girls were given it, #9,819 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,971 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,018 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,564 | 3.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,404 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,947 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,665 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,339 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,166 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,753 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,819 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,769 | 3.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,360 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,251 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,611 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,033 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,863 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,162 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,261 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,868 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,404 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,930 | 2.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,050 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,849 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,621 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,816 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,251 | 5.8 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,897 | 4.8 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,129 | 17.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marsella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marsella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marsella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marsella, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Marsella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 25 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 338 people named Marsella (328 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Marsella?
Marsella is a less common spelling of Marcella: SSA has recorded 166 Marsella and 65,836 Marcella since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 77,076 babies since 1880, Marsella is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 304 babies recorded by SSA was a Marsella (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marsella and names like it
- Compare Marsella and MarcellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarsella peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Marsella.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marsella alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.