Marisela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/marisɛla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marisela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., lateiname von.
- VEVenezuela1 in 2K(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 3K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 4.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
19,047 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., lateiname von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marisela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 19,047 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Marisela | 328 |
| VE Venezuela | #269 | 13,998 | 1 in 2K | 14K | Marisela | 47 |
| CO Colombia | #993 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 4 | Marisela | 63 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Marisela | 44 |
| CL Chile | #890 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 2 | Marisela | 61 |
| NI Nicaragua | #203 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Marisela | 15 |
| SV El Salvador | #259 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Marisela | 33 |
| HN Honduras | #157 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Marisela | 30 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 593 | 1 in 8.6K | 593 | — | 29 |
| SM San Marino | #791 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Marisela | 2 |
19,047 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marisela Ponceb. 1945VEVenezuelan botanist
- Marisela Norteb. 1955USAmerican writer
- Marisela Ortiz Escobedob. 1958MXMexican activist (1958-2010)
- Mariselab. 1966USmexican-American singer
- Marisela Moralesb. 1970MXMexican lawyer
- Maricona Contrerasb. 1981MXnot in their usual nameMexican “Actress” (born 1971)
- Marisela Puicónb. 1981PEperformer, actor, tv host, model, life coach, entrepreneur.
- Marisela de Montecristob. 1992SVSalvadorian beauty pageant winner
- Marisela Verenab. 2000CUCuban singer-songwriter
- Marisela CastellónHNHonduran association football player
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 52 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19K | #1,650 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 14K | #135 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 593 | #765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #1,650 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 5 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #117 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 2 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Marisela?
- A machine transcription gives /marisɛla/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Marisela mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., lateiname von
- Is Marisela a male or female name?
- Marisela 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.
- What are other forms of the name Marisela?
- In the etymology graph, Marisa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marisela have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Marisela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marisela.
- Where is Marisela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marisela is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marisela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,047 people named Marisela in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Marisela compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Marisela is the 157th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mariselaThe 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, “Marisela” — the 157th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.