Maricel
Maricel is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Maricel
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Maricel is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Maricel
Maricel first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1960, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1990: 23 births, good for #4,230 nationwide. About 29% of every Maricel on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Maricel last appeared in the published SSA data in 2011, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 465 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Maricel
Maricel is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1960 and has accumulated 465 births in the dataset. Maricel's peak popularity came in 1990 when it ranked #4,230. Use the chart and map above to compare Maricel's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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