Marcelina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Marcellina in NL Netherlands, NG Nigeria, IT Italy and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marcelina is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name229K records spelled Marcelina15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Philippines, Croatia

  Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

  Also written Marčelina, Marcelína, Marćelina, Marčelína

• English given name60K records spelled Marcelina10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Philippines

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Marcèlina

• Ukrainian given name192 records spelled Marcelina11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Peru

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Марцеліна, Марселина, Марцелина, Марцаліна

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marcelina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Forme féminine de Marcel; du latin Marcellinus, lié à Mars.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, weibl. Vom., polnische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 125 years between 1892–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Marcelina Czartoryskab. 1826PLPolish musician and aristocrat (1817-1894)
• Marcelina Darowskab. 1827UABeatified Roman Catholic nun (1827-1911)
• Marcelina Almeidab. 1830ARArgentine-born Uruguayan writer
• Marcella Sembrichb. 1858USnot in their usual namePolish coloratura soprano singer (1858–1935)
• Marcelina Kulikowskab. 1872PLPolish poet
• Marcelina Bautistab. 1966MXMexican activist and union leader
• Marcelina Kialab. 1979AOAngolan handball player
• Marcelina Zawadzkab. 1989PLMiss Polonia 2011, contestant in Miss Universe 2012
• Marcelina Lechb. 1996PLPolish figure skater
• Marcelina KotarskaPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 719 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marcelina?

We estimate roughly 75 thousand people bear Marcelina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Marcelina have the most bearers?

Marcelina is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled marcelina.

Where is Marcelina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marcelina is densest in Poland — about 1 in 762 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.

How common is Marcelina compared with other names?

In Peru, Marcelina is the 240th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.

Is Marcelina a male or female name?

Marcelina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Marcelina mean?

Recorded meaning: A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines.