Marisela

Where Marisela comes from

Marisela hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #2,598 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Marisela Morales born
    Mexican lawyer
  3. 1985
    Peak, #494
    410 babies named Marisela — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1992
    Marisela de Montecristo born
    Salvadorian beauty pageant winner
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #946.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marisela Morales · Mexican lawyer, born 1970
  • Marisela de Montecristo · Salvadorian beauty pageant winner, born 1992
  • Marisela Ortiz Escobedo · Mexican activist, 1958–2010
  • Marisela Santibáñez · Chilean politician and media personality, born 1975
  • Marisela Puicón · performer, actor, tv host, model, life coach, entrepreneur., born 1981

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.