🔥Marcella

mar-CHEHL-la; mar-KEHL-la; mar-SEHL-uh

Latin

"warlike"

Updated Tue Mar 18 2025

Marcella Origin and Meaning

The name Marcella is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "warlike".

Marcella is a name of Latin origin, which has been neglected for decades now. Depicted as the world's most beautiful woman in Don Quixote (where it's spelled Marcela), it has plenty of flair and elegance to revive it again.

Derived from Marcellus, it is connected to Mars, the Roman god of war, but for a less warlike association, there is Saint Marcella, a Roman matron of strength and intellect who organized a religious sisterhood at her mansion, which St. Jerome guided in religion and learning.

Originally in Latin, it would have been pronounced with a hard C sound (like Marcus), while in Italian, it is pronounced with a CH sound (like in Francesca) and in English it might be said with a soft C sound (as in Marcy).

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Marcella Rank in US Top 1000

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Popularity of the name Marcella

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86Unique2023
980Future2028

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The name Marcella in Pop Culture

Marcella Boyce
social worker in 'Marcella' (1894) by Mrs Humphry Ward
DS Marcella Backland
main character in British TV series "Marcella"
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character in video game Sims: 3 Moonlight Bay

International Variations of the name Marcella

Marzena
Polish
Marceline
French
Marquita
Spanish
Marcelle
French
Marcela
Czech
Marcella
Italian
Marcelina
Slavic
Marcelia
French