first name
MARICELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 31,152 people named Maricela, 98.8% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Maricela peaked in 1977, when 437 babies got the name.
At least 13,133 babies have been given the name since 1944. 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.
Maricela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,008. The largest share of babies named Maricela, 35.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Maricela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Maricela has been most common in California (4.8×), Texas (4.6×), and Arizona (3.5×), and least common in New York (0.08×).
11,148 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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