Maricela
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maricela is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. In Honduras it is the 83rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.
- SVEl Salvador1 in 938◐
- MXMexico1 in 966
- HNHonduras1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈40K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 292 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
477K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Marisela in HR Croatia and Марисела in MK North Macedonia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #160 | 328,952 | 265K rec. | — | 2.7K | Maricela | 168 |
| US United States | — | 31,081 | 106K rec. | 1 in 11K | 31K | Maricela | 292 |
| SV El Salvador | #132 | 28,895 | 22K rec. | — | — | Maricela | 29 |
| VE Venezuela | #974 | 22,213 | 10K rec. | — | 14K | Maricela | 30 |
| PE Peru | #997 | 20,850 | 18K rec. | — | — | Maricela | 45 |
| HN Honduras | #83 | 11,819 | 12K rec. | — | — | Maricela | 21 |
| CO Colombia | #510 | 9,712 | 4.7K rec. | — | 8 | Maricela | 69 |
| CL Chile | #649 | 9,680 | 1.4K rec. | — | 2 | Maricela | 53 |
| EC Ecuador | #475 | 5,835△ | 563 rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 5.8K | Maricela | 45 |
| CR Costa Rica | #208 | 2,290 | 5.7K rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 2.3K | Maricela | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 777 | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 64K | 777 | Maricela | 72 |
| FR France | — | 383 | 341 rec. | — | — | Maricela | 62 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish588K77%
- English97K13%
- 23K3%
- Portuguese9.6K1%
- German1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 587,669 | 77% |
| English | 96,656 | 13% |
| 23,053 | 3% | |
| Portuguese | 9,603 | 1% |
| German | 1,249 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 12 |
| 1946 | 13 |
| 1947 | 16 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 35 |
| 1950 | 28 |
| 1951 | 34 |
| 1952 | 32 |
| 1953 | 48 |
| 1954 | 44 |
| 1955 | 53 |
| 1956 | 51 |
| 1957 | 49 |
| 1958 | 58 |
| 1959 | 55 |
| 1960 | 90 |
| 1961 | 84 |
| 1962 | 94 |
| 1963 | 126 |
| 1964 | 118 |
| 1965 | 137 |
| 1966 | 122 |
| 1967 | 159 |
| 1968 | 139 |
| 1969 | 183 |
| 1970 | 166 |
| 1971 | 211 |
| 1972 | 232 |
| 1973 | 265 |
| 1974 | 291 |
| 1975 | 291 |
| 1976 | 405 |
| 1977 | 437 |
| 1978 | 425 |
| 1979 | 360 |
| 1980 | 328 |
| 1981 | 278 |
| 1982 | 251 |
| 1983 | 207 |
| 1984 | 220 |
| 1985 | 323 |
| 1986 | 332 |
| 1987 | 313 |
| 1988 | 325 |
| 1989 | 331 |
| 1990 | 399 |
| 1991 | 328 |
| 1992 | 318 |
| 1993 | 246 |
| 1994 | 262 |
| 1995 | 218 |
| 1996 | 249 |
| 1997 | 210 |
| 1998 | 228 |
| 1999 | 222 |
| 2000 | 178 |
| 2001 | 170 |
| 2002 | 160 |
| 2003 | 146 |
| 2004 | 160 |
| 2005 | 142 |
| 2006 | 173 |
| 2007 | 157 |
| 2008 | 125 |
| 2009 | 132 |
| 2010 | 95 |
| 2011 | 90 |
| 2012 | 94 |
| 2013 | 77 |
| 2014 | 75 |
| 2015 | 57 |
| 2016 | 75 |
| 2017 | 60 |
| 2018 | 66 |
| 2019 | 48 |
| 2020 | 48 |
| 2021 | 47 |
| 2022 | 48 |
| 2023 | 61 |
| 2024 | 53 |
| 2025 | 64 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 82 years between 1944–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maricela Sánchez Cortésb. 1901MXMexican politician
- Maricela Ayala Falcónb. 1953MXMexican historian, professor, and researcher
- Maricela Contreras Juliánb. 1961MXMexican politician
- Maricela Serrano Hernándezb. 1961MXMexican politician
- Maricela Bonellib. 1965CUCuban judoka
- Maricella Gonzálezb. 1968COnot in their usual nameColombian actor
- Maricela Cobuzb. 1980RORomanian politician
- Maricela Velázquez Sánchezb. 1982MXMexican politician
- Maricela Cornejob. 1987USAmerican professional boxer
- Maricela Montemayorb. 1991MXMexican canoeist
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●
Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31K | #1,229 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5.8K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.8K | #312 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 3.9K | #443 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 2.7K | #29 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.3K | #320 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 777 | #3,400 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 598 | #1,912 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 437 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1990 | 427 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 425 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 405 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 447 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maricela?
- We estimate roughly 40 thousand people bear Maricela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maricela have the most bearers?
- Maricela is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled maricela.
- How common is Maricela compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Maricela is the 160th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
- Is Maricela a male or female name?
- Maricela 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.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maricela” — the 160th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.