Maricel

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maricel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 421(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.7K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 4.6K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈260,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 421 (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MaricelLatin(measured from records)
마리셀Hangul(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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maricel 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.

Where Maricel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#33≈260,000 est.≈1 in 421201KMaricel114
ID Indonesia—≈99,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Maricel19
AR Argentina#406≈9,200 est.≈1 in 4.9K6Maricel76
US United States—3,2381 in 103K3.2KMaricel235
CO Colombia—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 16K1Maricel57
CL Chile#518≈2,900 est.≈1 in 6.3K1Maricel65
CR Costa Rica#2461,1071 in 4.6K1.1KMaricel30

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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maricel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States, San Marino

    Also written Maricèl

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Måríçèl

  • Hebrew given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Also written מריקל

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Марисель

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1950196019701980Maricel Voinea, b. 1959Maricel Segú Peralba, b. 1968Maricel Laxa, b. 1970Maricel Álvarez, b. 1973Maricel Palomeque, b. 1976Maricel Etchecoin, b. 1978

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Maricel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.2K#5,340
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1.1K#521
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1973344—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1974304—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1975268—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1979245—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028#5,340
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20246#2,588
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20155—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20155—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20115—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20211—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Is Maricel a male or female name?
Maricel 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 Maricel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Maricel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maricel.
How common is the name Maricel?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,238 people named Maricel in 2020, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
How common is Maricel compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Maricel is the 33rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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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, “Maricel” — the 33rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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