first name
MARISELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,047 people named Marisela, 98.4% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1% as White. 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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Marisela peaked in 1985, when 418 babies got the name.
At least 10,338 babies have been given the name since 1945. 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.
Marisela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,217. The largest share of babies named Marisela, 41.7%, 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 Marisela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marisela has been most common in California (4.7×), Texas (4.3×), and Arizona (4.2×), and least common in New York (0.2×).
8,486 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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