Marbella
Girl · mar-BEL-a · Spanish
Marbella is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “sea + beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 1,359th for girls in the US (162 babies).
What does Marbella mean?
Spanish: from the Spanish resort town, often read as mar + bella
“sea + beautiful”
Shares its name with a resort town on Spain's Costa del Sol; as a name it is usually read as mar bella, beautiful sea.
- Say it
- mar-BEL-a
Is Marbella a girl's or a boy's name?
Marbella is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 162 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Marbella in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,359among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 162about 1 in 9,900 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 83% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 162 girls in the US were named Marbella, making it the 1,359th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,712th. It first appears in the records in 1971.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had the most girls named Marbella of any year since it first appeared, in 1971.
Half of all the girls named Marbella in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Marbella in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,359 |
| 2024 | 104 | #1,913 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,946 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,174 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,212 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,712 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,376 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,646 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,432 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,502 |
| 2015 | 80 | #2,318 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,497 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,313 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,265 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,637 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,905 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,188 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,718 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,147 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,206 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,965 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,777 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,494 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,142 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,413 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,813 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,851 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,727 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,692 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,144 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,583 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,367 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,872 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,337 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,929 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,055 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,352 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,316 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,773 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,185 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,453 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,285 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,407 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,318 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,946 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,886 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,213 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,458 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,078 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,290 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,322 |
Nicknames for Marbella
- Bella 567 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Marbella
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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