Entry № 6441 · Latin origin

Marcella Marcella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mar-CHEL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Of Mars, warlike"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "of mars, warlike".

Marcella is the Italian feminine of Marcello — from the Latin Marcus, possibly from Mars (god of war). Saint Marcella (c. 325-410) was the Roman noblewoman who turned her palace into a Christian monastic community.

Marcella Hazan (1924-2013) was the Italian American cookbook author who introduced authentic Italian cooking to America.

Of Mars. The cookbook author.

The name in its native script.

Marcella
Transliteration
Marcella
Pronunciation
/ mɑːrˈtʃɛl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marcella stands.

Marcella does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Marcellas before her.

Real people
Marcella Hazan
Italian American cookbook author.
1924 – 2013
Saint Marcella
Roman desert mother.
c. 325 – 410
In fiction
Marcella
Detective in Marcella.
ITV, 2016

Names connected to Marcella.

The number behind Marcella.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marcella reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.