first name
MARCELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 22,861 people named Marcela, 88.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 8.2% as White and 2.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Marcela peaked in 1999, when 210 babies got the name.
At least 8,955 babies have been given the name since 1908. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Marcela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,796. The largest share of babies named Marcela, 29.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Marcela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marcela has been most common in Texas (4.5×), California (3.9×), and Arizona (2.9×), and least common in Georgia (0.26×).
6,687 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Marcela, most common first.
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