Girl · Latin
Marcella
Say it: mar-SEL-uh
Meaning
Feminine of Marcellus, a diminutive of Marcus.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Kept alive by St. Marcella of Rome; Marcela is common in the modern Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1920s
In the United States
- 64,623 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1922, about 1 in 781 girls
- 237 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Marcela
| French | Marcelle |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Marcela |
| Italian | Marcella |
| Portuguese | Marcela |
| Polish | Marcela |
| Polish | Marcelina |
Famous bearers
- Marcella of Rome, 4th-century ascetic and friend of Jerome
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Roman inscriptions and tombstones
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.