Marcella
Marcella is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 236 births. Its best rank was 155th, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2360.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19221,537 births
- Best rank
- #155in 1922
- Since 1880
- 65,337people given the name
The story in the numbers
65,337 girls have been named Marcella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 1,537 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marcella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 222 | |
| 1890s | 706 | |
| 1900s | 1,762 | |
| 1910s | 8,080 | |
| 1920s | 13,397 | |
| 1930s | 7,915 | |
| 1940s | 6,676 | |
| 1950s | 6,617 | |
| 1960s | 5,983 | |
| 1970s | 3,891 | |
| 1980s | 2,787 | |
| 1990s | 2,305 | |
| 2000s | 1,934 | |
| 2010s | 1,897 | |
| 2020s | 1,165 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Marcella was the 155th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Marcella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorainepeak 1922
- Carmelapeak 1923
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Lavenapeak 1922
- Sybilpeak 1921
- Revapeak 1921
- Marianpeak 1924
- Enidpeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.