Maristella

#9,253 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Maristela

Maristella has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #9,253 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Maristella, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maristella: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Maristela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maristella means

Maristella is a form of Maristela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maristella → Maristela. The family’s meaning is “of the sea + star”, recorded in Portuguese with the source elements maris and stella.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maristela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Maristella between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #9,253 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,810 in 2020 to #9,253 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 Maristella?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 301,000; 11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 146,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,253; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 208,901 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maristella 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maristella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maristellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maristella was born before 2021 — so the typical Maristella is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 73.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 73.6% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Maristella 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: +2,519; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,557; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (11)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,253; 2025

Spellings of Maristella

Maristella is not the most common spelling — Marisela is, with 54.5% against Maristella's 0.38%.

Marisela54.5%10,309
Mariella27.6%5,213
Maricella9.1%1,724
Maribella4.4%836
Christella4.0%749
Maristella0.38%72

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.

Maristella around the world

Where Maristella 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.

South Australia
1958–1983
#686
in 1983

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maristella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,253
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,557
Best rank ever: #9,253; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 11 that year
First recorded: 2017
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: 11

Names similar to Maristella

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

Sibling names for Maristella

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

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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