Mardella
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mardella has been given to 499 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1933, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Mardella, 1974
1 in 608,000
Mardella over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mardella?
Mardella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1974
- 1 in 608,000
- 5 of 3,039,803 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1974
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,407 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mardella sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mardella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mardellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mardella was born before 1934 — so the typical Mardella is around 91 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 85
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (150).
Is Mardella 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1933 (24)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Mardella
Mardella is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 36.4% against Mardella's 0.28%.
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 Mardella is used
Across 1910–2025, Mardella was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 177,791 across all states with data. It was least common in Iowa (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Dakota1 in 100,000
- 2Iowa1 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. Mardella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mardella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mardella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mardella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.