# Maricela (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maricela/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,133 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 56 / 13,077 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 90 | 2,136 |
| 2012 | 94 | 2,057 |
| 2013 | 77 | 2,375 |
| 2014 | 75 | 2,439 |
| 2015 | 57 | 3,017 |
| 2016 | 75 | 2,456 |
| 2017 | 60 | 2,827 |
| 2018 | 66 | 2,637 |
| 2019 | 48 | 3,316 |
| 2020 | 48 | 3,258 |
| 2021 | 47 | 3,373 |
| 2022 | 48 | 3,349 |
| 2023 | 61 | 2,808 |
| 2024 | 53 | 3,070 |
| 2025 | 64 | 2,712 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | 6,419 |
| 1979 | 7 | 5,170 |
| 1980 | 6 | 5,970 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,991 |
| 1983 | 6 | 5,954 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,966 |
| 1986 | 9 | 4,707 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,531 |
| 1990 | 5 | 9,000 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.