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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Marcella

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#948

up +106 places

2025 births

272

up +35 births

All-time births

65,614

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1922
1,537 births
Best rank
#155
in 1922
First recorded
1880
#461 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1947
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19221,537#155Peak
  2. 19231,503#158
  3. 19211,502#159
  4. 19241,476#164
  5. 19251,407#167

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #155 in 1922 · peak births 1,537 in 1922

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

222 boys · 65,614 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Marcella has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.