Marcelina

Where Marcelina comes from

The dictionaries list Marcelina as a given name — a female given name, variant of Marceline — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,085 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #938
    54 babies named Marcelina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,483.
  4. 1966
    Marcelina Bautista born
    Mexican activist and union leader
  5. 1979
    Marcelina Kiala born
    Angolan handball player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Marceline.
Namesakes
  • Marcelina Bautista · Mexican activist and union leader, born 1966
  • Marcelina Kiala · Angolan handball player, born 1979
  • Marcelina Darowska · Beatified Roman Catholic nun, 1827–1911
  • Marcelina Zawadzka · Miss Polonia 2011, contestant in Miss Universe 2012, born 1989
  • Marcelina Czartoryska · Polish musician and aristocrat, 1826–1894

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.