Marcela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Marcela (m.fl. former) är femininformer av → Marcel och → Marcelo, särskilt använda i länder där romanska språk talas
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾθela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marcela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 296(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 327
- COColombia≈1 in 632
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #567 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- 1 in 100 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Marcela (m.fl. former) är femininformer av → Marcel och → Marcelo, särskilt använda i länder där romanska språk talas.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marcela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #84 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | 63 | Marcela | 151 |
| BR Brazil | #247 | 145,029 | 1 in 1.5K | 145K | Marcela | 211 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 107,308 | 1 in 100 | 107K | — | 1 |
| CO Colombia | #23 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 632 | 50 | Marcela | 190 |
| CL Chile | #67 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 327 | 33 | Marcela | 170 |
| CR Costa Rica | #21 | 5,305 | 1 in 961 | 5.3K | Marcela | 97 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); MVČR — living population register 2017; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marcela is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme féminine de Marc, du latin Marcus, « consacré à Mars ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Nacida en marzo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Guerrera
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lina Medinab. 1933PEnot in their usual namePeruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history
- Marcela Gallegob. 1971COColombian actress
- Marcela Saidb. 1972CLChilean film director
- Marcela Toporb. 1976RORomanian journalist
- Marcela Marb. 1979COColombian actress
- Marcela Boviob. 1979MXMexican metal artist
- Marcela Temerb. 1983BR36th First Lady of Brazil (2016–2018)
- Marcela Kloosterboerb. 1983ARArgentine actress
- Marcela Guiradob. 1989MXMexican actor, television actor and film actor
- Princess Alexia of the Netherlandsb. 2005NLnot in their usual namethe second daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 145K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 144K | #232 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 140K | #348 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 107K | #49 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 54K | #56 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.3K | #136 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 999 | #232 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 63 | #953 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 50 | #74 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 33 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Marcela?
- In the etymology graph, Marcelino, Marcella and Marcelina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Marcela mean?
- Recorded meaning: Marcela (m.fl. former) är femininformer av → Marcel och → Marcelo, särskilt använda i länder där romanska språk talas.
- Is Marcela a male or female name?
- Marcela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Marcela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 154 thousand people named Marcela in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcela.
- Where is Marcela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marcela is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 100 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Marcela?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾθela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Marcela?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 145,029 people named Marcela in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Marcela compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Marcela is the 84th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marcelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marcela” — the 84th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.