Given name
Marcellina
“dedicated to Mars, the god of war”
Marcellina is a variant of Marcella. In Latin use, Marcella carries the interpretation “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Marcellina is a variant of Marcella. In Latin use, Marcella carries the interpretation “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Marcellina is a form of Marcelline. Marcelline comes from French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latin usage, Marcellina is a feminine form of MARCELLINUS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marcellina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 299
- 0 boys · 299 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,700 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,700 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 376 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marcellina’s family of names
In Latin usage, Marcellina is a feminine form of MARCELLINUS. Marcellina has a related form in Marcella. In Italian usage, Marcellina has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Marcelina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Marcellina has relatives in 5 languages.
4 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marcellina
- Saint MarcellinaSister of Saint Ambrose of Milan327–397
- Marcellina EmmanuelTanzanian middle-distance runnerborn 1964
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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