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Marbella

#1,364 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marbella has been given to 2,467 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,364 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 162 recorded.

Babies named Marbella, 2025

1 in 20,500

Marbella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marbella: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marbella means

Marbella is a given name.

The naming story behind Marbella

Wikidata records Marbella as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q57559439, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,467 girls were recorded with the name Marbella between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 162 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,364 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,738 in 2020 to #1,364 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,334 in 2015 to #1,364 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Marbella?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,500
162 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,920
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,364
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,186 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marbella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,186 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marbella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marbellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marbella was born before 2011 — so the typical Marbella is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,467
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (695).

Is Marbella rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+554
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,374
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+970
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (162)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,364
2025

Spellings of Marbella

Marbella is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 29.6% against Marbella's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marbella is used

Across 2016–2025, Marbella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 13,219 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,667
  2. 2Arizona1 in 7,143
  3. 3Texas1 in 8,333
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Marbella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,364
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,374
Best rank ever
#1,364
2025
Peak year
2025
162 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,467
Count in 2025
162

Names similar to Marbella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Marbella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marbella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Marbella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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