girls:
13k births since 1944
#1372 (76th percentile)
boys:
56 births since 1978
#4530 (1st percentile)
overall:
13k births since 1944
#2307 (70th percentile)
The name Maricela is the #2,307 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,015 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 70.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,372 (76.0% percentile) for all time with 12,959 births since 1944. For boys, it ranks #4,530 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1978.
Maricela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1978 for boys).
The name Maricela has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maricela reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 47.3% percentile (ranked #405) with 266 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 266 births per million (ranked 47.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maricela ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 13.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maricela reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #701) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maricela".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Maricela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Maricela is pronounced as mah-rih-SEH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-REE-seh-luh, at 14.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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