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Marisela

The girl's name Marisela has been in the national records since 1945, with 10,338 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 9,900 Mariselas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Marisela boys named Marisela

By the numbers

Total US births
10,338
Estimated living today
9,900
Median age today
37
Peak year
1985
Best rank
494th
Rank in 2025
4,987th
First recorded
1945
Girls / boys
10,309 / 29

How old the living Mariselas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 10,338 babies given the name since 1945, about 9,900 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 930 of them are children and 300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Mariselas

People named Marisela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Marisela is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Marisela is most concentrated in California (4.7×), Texas (4.3×), Arizona (4.2×), New Mexico (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1985

The most popular girls’ names the year Marisela peaked:

All the names of 1985

Where Marisela lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 572 women called Marisela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Marisela 60 0.108 876
Ourense Marisela 14 0.088 745
Palmas, Las Marisela 24 0.041 1,990
Coruña, A Marisela 20 0.034 1,242
Madrid Marisela 121 0.033 1,521
Pontevedra Marisela 14 0.029 1,410

Listed in 24 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 28 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Marisela against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.