Maricela
About 13,133 American babies have been named Maricela since 1944, most of them around 1977. In 2025 it ranked 2,691st. About 13,000 Maricelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Maricela boys named Maricela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,133
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 453rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,691st
- First recorded
- 1944
- Girls / boys
- 13,077 / 56
How old the living Maricelas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,133 babies given the name since 1944, about 13,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Maricela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maricela is most concentrated in California (4.8×), Texas (4.6×), Arizona (3.5×), Illinois (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Maricela peaked:
Where Maricela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 777 women called Maricela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalajara | Maricela | 12 | 0.085 | 809 |
| Palmas, Las | Maricela | 36 | 0.061 | 1,481 |
| Bizkaia | Maricela | 29 | 0.048 | 1,272 |
| Araba/Álava | Maricela | 8 | 0.046 | 1,405 |
| Huesca | Maricela | 5 | 0.044 | 1,206 |
| Madrid | Maricela | 163 | 0.044 | 1,209 |
Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Maricela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.