About the name Maricela
Maricela belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Maricela first appears in Social Security records in 1944. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #453 in 1977, and in 2024 53 babies received the name — 13,012 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.