Marisela
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births · Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 410 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,309since 1945
Marisela over time
Rank among girls' names. Marisela has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,987 | 26 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,777 | 40 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,184 | 51 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,866 | 60 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,041 | 100 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,890 | 112 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,894 | 109 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,682 | 125 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,565 | 130 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,498 | 134 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,446 | 136 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,351 | 143 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,287 | 151 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,120 | 182 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,143 | 171 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,099 | 175 | — | |
| 1997 | #993 | 196 | — | |
| 1996 | #901 | 218 | — | |
| 1995 | #946 | 199 | — | |
| 1994 | #844 | 236 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #810 | 247 | — | |
| 1992 | #690 | 313 | — | |
| 1991 | #679 | 315 | — | |
| 1990 | #617 | 365 | — | |
| 1989 | #591 | 369 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #638 | 310 | — | |
| 1987 | #621 | 311 | — | |
| 1986 | #577 | 336 | — | |
| 1985 | #494 | 410 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #874 | 174 | — | |
| 1983 | #959 | 152 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,019 | 144 | — | |
| 1981 | #825 | 191 | — | |
| 1980 | #712 | 236 | — | |
| 1979 | #673 | 256 | — | |
| 1978 | #714 | 221 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #608 | 278 | — | |
| 1976 | #574 | 285 | — | |
| 1975 | #740 | 195 | — | |
| 1974 | #705 | 208 | — | |
| 1973 | #749 | 185 | — | |
| 1972 | #863 | 149 | — | |
| 1971 | #847 | 162 | — | |
| 1970 | #889 | 149 | — | |
| 1969 | #994 | 118 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,031 | 101 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,133 | 87 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,113 | 90 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,177 | 83 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,372 | 67 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,429 | 61 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,350 | 67 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,481 | 57 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,925 | 35 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,765 | 39 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,657 | 42 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,784 | 37 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,005 | 29 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,774 | 35 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,949 | 29 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,017 | 26 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,861 | 29 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,013 | 23 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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| 1945 | #2,598 | 12 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marisela! It came in at #2,598, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Marisela is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#231 · 1 in 1,170
- Arizona#372 · 1 in 2,048
- Illinois#377 · 1 in 2,532
- Texas#499 · 1 in 3,231
Best ever in a state: #165 in Arizona, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #231 | 131 | 1 in 1,170 |
| Arizona | #372 | 8 | 1 in 2,048 |
| Illinois | #377 | 28 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Texas | #499 | 32 | 1 in 3,231 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Marisela
- 780 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #4,987)
- 982 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #4,987)
- 2,141 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 380 spots in 1985 (#874 → #494)
- Biggest drop: 194 spots in 1982 (#825 → #1,019)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1985 at #494 (410 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1983–1997
- Highest: 1 in 4,197 girls born in 1985 were named Marisela (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.5% of all girls named Marisela (2,633) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 49 | #2,013 (1949) | #3,375 |
| 1950s | 289 | #1,657 (1958) | #2,120 |
| 1960s | 766 | #994 (1969) | #1,301 |
| 1970s | 2,088 | #574 (1976) | #736 |
| 1980s | 2,633 | #494 (1985) | #731 |
| 1990s | 2,435 | #617 (1990) | #872 |
| 2000s | 1,322 | #1,120 (2000) | #1,577 |
| 2010s | 517 | #2,451 (2010) | #3,277 |
| 2020s | 210 | #3,765 (2022) | #4,135 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marisela in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,931 of them was named Marisela, which outranked 93.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 205,230 of them was named Marisela, which outranked 38.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,857Zebediah9
- #3,857Zion9
- #3,857Zoltan9
- #4,157Marisela8
- #4,157Abimael8
- #4,157Adrean8
- #4,157Airrion8
- #4,554Abasi7
- #4,554Abdallah7
- #4,554Absalom7
Tied with 396 names at #4,157; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.