Marcela
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning dedicated to Mars; feminine form of Marcellus.
Marcela by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Marcela. In the US, 108 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 210 babies in 1999, making it a 1990s name.
Other names that come from Marcellus
Like Marcela, each of these traces back to Marcellus: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Marcelineof Mars; dedicated to Mars; feminine form of Marcellus194 in the US (2017)
- Marcellusdedicated to Mars178 in the US (2017)
- Marcellodedicated to mars; a form of Marcellus142 in the US (2017)
- Marcellousdedicated to Mars; a form of Marcellus17 in the US (2017)
- Marcelusof mars; warlike; a form of Marcellus5 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Marcela. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Marcellaof Mars; warlike or martial228 in the US (2017)
- Marielaof the sea; diminutive of Maria120 in the US (2017)
- Maricelaof the sea; a form of Marcella60 in the US (2017)
- Mariellaof the sea; a form of Maria30 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marielof the sea; a form of Mary or Muriel124 in the US (2017)
- Manuelagod is with us; feminine form of Manuel14 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Marcela
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