Marella
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a feminine form of Marello (see Marelli).
- INIndia1 in 548K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 52K
- UYUruguay1 in 89K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
2,420 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a feminine form of Marello (see Marelli).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marella 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,420 | 1 in 548K | 2.4K | Marella | 83 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 2 | Marella | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 231K | listed | — | 1 |
| US United States | 683 | 1 in 487K | 781 | Marella | 91 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 571K | listed | Marella | 25 |
| BE Belgium | 57 | 1 in 206K | 57 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 38 | 1 in 89K | 38 | — | — |
2,420 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Marella is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lij, hank
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Antonio Marellab. 1878ITItalian physician (1878-1952)
- Olinto Marellab. 1882ITItalian Roman Catholic priest (1882-1969)
- Paolo Marellab. 1895ITapostolic nuncio and cardinal (1895–1984)
- Maria Luisa Marellab. 1905ITItalian archaeologist (1905-1993)
- Gorilla Monsoonb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler (1937-1999)
- Michel Marellab. 1946FRassociation football player
- Maria Rosaria Marellab. 1960ITItalian jurist (born 1960)
- Paola Marellab. 1963ITItalian television presenter (1963–2024)
- Joey Marellab. 1963USAmerican professional wrestling referee (1963–1994)
- Anthony Carellib. 1974CAnot in their usual nameCanadian professional wrestler
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 51 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.4K | #528 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.4K | #2,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 781 | #31,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 683 | #33,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 559 | #37,480 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 57 | #23,819 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 38 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 does the name Marella mean, and where does it come from?
- from a feminine form of Marello (see Marelli). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Marella have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Marella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marella.
- How common is the name Marella?
- In India, the national register counted 2,420 people named Marella, about 1 in 548 thousand residents.
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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, “Marella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.