Marcellina

#12,696 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Marcellinus

Marcellina has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #12,696 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Marcellina, 2025

1 in 474,000

Marcellina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marcellina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Marcellinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marcellina means

Marcellina is a feminine form of Marcellinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marcellina is used in Ancient Roman and Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mar.t͡ʃel.ˈli.na/ for Marcellina.

Origin, language, and formation

Marcellina is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marcellinus and Marcelline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 299 girls were recorded with the name Marcellina between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1976; its best national rank was #3,473 in 1976.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,164 in 2015 to #12,696 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marcellina?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #12,696; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marcellina 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marcellina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcellinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marcellina was born before 1976 — so the typical Marcellina is around 49 today.

Median birth year: 1976; About 49 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 13.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 263; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Marcellina 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: +4,106; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +5,468; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.40×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 35.0%; Peak was 1976 (20)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,473; 1976

Spellings of Marcellina

Marcellina is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 85.1% against Marcellina's 0.39%.

Marcella85.1%65,614
Marceline8.7%6,738
Marcelina4.4%3,419
Marcelline1.4%1,073
Marcellina0.39%299

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 Marcellina is used

Across 1910–2025, Marcellina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

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. Marcellina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marcellina around the world

Where Marcellina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1926–1977
#2,503
in 1977

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Marcellina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #12,696
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,473; 1976
Peak year: 1976; 20 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 299
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Marcellina

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

Sibling names for Marcellina

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

For a sister

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For a brother

Jerod Torrey Shon Scot Edwardo Tracey Andrea Stacey

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