Entry № 6443 · Latin origin

Marcellina Marcellina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mar-cheh-LEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Little hammer (Saint Ambrose's sister)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "little hammer (saint ambrose's sister)".

Marcellina is the diminutive of Marcella, from the Latin marcellus (little Mars-hammer). Saint Marcellina (c. 330-c. 398) was the elder sister and spiritual mentor of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan — a Roman consecrated virgin to whom Ambrose dedicated his treatise De virginibus.

Featured in Ambrose's correspondence.

Little hammer. The elder sister-mentor of Saint Ambrose.

The name in its native script.

Marcellina
Transliteration
Marcellina
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑːr.tʃəˈliː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marcellina stands.

Marcellina 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.

Marcellinas before her.

Real people
Saint Marcellina
Ambrose's sister.
c. 330 – c. 398
In fiction
Marcellina
Subject of Ambrose's De virginibus.

Names connected to Marcellina.

The number behind Marcellina.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marcellina reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.